REMARKS 



STATE OF BRITAIN, 



TIME OF ITS CONQUEST BY THE ROMANS. 



BY MR. THOMAS HOPKINS. 



(Read March 25th, 1827.) 



X HE system of education pursued in modern 

 Europe, has made its inhabitants famiUarly ac- 

 quainted with the classical writers of ancient 

 Greece and Rome. At the period of the revival 

 of a taste for literature, the productions of those 

 writers were felt to be so superior to what was 

 then produced, that the veneration for them 

 appears to have been almost unbounded : and 

 the same feehng has prevailed, in greater or less 

 strength, down to the present day. This 

 veneration no doubt contributed to improve the 

 taste of the European world. The study, the 

 analysis, the imitation of such admirable models 

 have had, it must be admitted, a beneficial 

 influence on modern literature. 



