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Printed for W. CREECH, Edinburgh; and for
W. STRAHAN, and T. CADELL, London.

MDCCLXXIV.

HE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

155776

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1899.

MOY WEN

SKETCHES

OF THE

HISTORY OF M A N.

BOOK II.

Progrefs of MEN in SOCIETY.

SKET C

MILITARY Branch of GOVERNMENT.

D

URING the infancy of a nation, every member depends on his own industry for procuring the neceffries of life: he is his own mafon, his own tailor, his own physician; and on himself he chiefly relies for offence as well as defence. Every favage can fay, what few beggars among us can fay, Omnia mea mecum porto; and hence the aptitude

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