282 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



another is regenerated at the fame epocha : this is 

 what we have feen happen in our own times, when 

 the greateft part of the Republic of Poland, hav- 

 ing been difmembered in the North of Europe, 

 to be confounded in the three adjoining States, 

 Ruffia, Pruffia, and Auftria, very foon after the 

 greateft part of the Britifli Colonies of North- 

 America, was difunited from the three States of 

 England, Scotland, and Ireland, to form one Re- 

 public ; and as there was in Europe, a portion of 

 Poland not difmembered, there was, in like man- 

 ner, in America, a portion of the Colonies that 

 did not feparate from Great-Britain. 



The fame political re-aflions are to be found in 

 all Countries, and in all ages. When the Empire 

 of the Greeks was fubverted on the banks of the 

 Euxine-Sea, in 1453, that of the Turks imme- 

 diately replaced it i and when that of Troy was 

 deftroyed in Afia, under Priam, that of Rome re- 

 ceived it's birth in Italy, under Eneas. 



But, from that total fubverfion of Troy, there 

 enfued a great many revolutions of inferior mo- 

 ment in the reft of the Human Race, and efpe- 

 cially in the Nations of Europe. 



1 oppofed to the ftate of barbarifm of the Gauls, 

 that of the corruption of Egypt, which was then 



at 



