An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Volume 3
Excerpt from An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Vol. 1 of 4 From the period of the revolution, the influence of America, on Europe has been of a different kind: the glorious {truggle which the United States fuftained, and the inquiries to which that eventful period gave rife, did much to raile mankind from that Rate of abject flavery and degradation, to which defpotifm, aided by ...
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Excerpt from An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Vol. 1 of 4 From the period of the revolution, the influence of America, on Europe has been of a different kind: the glorious {truggle which the United States fuftained, and the inquiries to which that eventful period gave rife, did much to raile mankind from that Rate of abject flavery and degradation, to which defpotifm, aided by fuperitition, had funk them from that period the rights of man began to be underftood, and the principles of civil and religious liberty have been canvaffed with a freedom before nu known, and their influence has extended itfelf from the palace to the cottage: in lhort, the revolution in the late Britifh Ame rican colonies bids fair ultimately not only to occafion the eman cipation of the other European colonies on that continent, but toiaccomplilh a complete revolution in all the old governments of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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