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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 Excerpt: ...under the name of the bitter Tintlure. the the merit of the invention, afiert that they were only some dirty villains, according to the idea their profession conveys in an Englishman's head, judging from a comparison with that sort of people who in England follow the trade of thieves, foot-pads, robbers, housebreakers, and pick-pockets. Too many and too fatal examples have we got, and do we meet with, indeed, every day in our own country, of people of higher rank and more exalted station, engaged in the same business and way of life, though not so much falling, by the mode of transaction observed in the practice, within the letter of the law, and thereby not so directly amenable to the cognizance os the magistrates, the verdict of a jury, and the sentence of a judge. The bad opinion, which experience and cool reflection, on the present state of our manners, and the corruption of our morals, as well as on the transactions of society in these our days, induce me to entertain of the actuating principles of individuals, is such indeed as to leave no room for me to doubt but every one, from the highest to the lowest, would willingly strip his brother of his property, could he do it with the safety of his person, --Therefore, there is no cause why we mould think that a lucky F chance, chance, a fortukuous hap, procured to four Ignorant rogues this happy antipestilential preservative; and there is a much greater rea? son to think, that it is the fruit of the deep and long premeditated combinations pf four ABLE and INGENIOUS CONFEDERATES, whose heads the calamitous circumstance of the times had put to work. For, interest is the greatest promoter, the most powerful spur of industry. And man, the most ravenous species of the animal kingdom, is so selfishly prone and a...

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