1 791- remarks on grammar. lit 



heaven, our senators afsemble to sanctify the prac- 

 tice. 



Our North American colonies were establifhed, 

 defended, and lost, bj a succefsion of long and bloody 

 wars, and at a recorded expence of at least two or 

 three hundred millions sterling *• We still retain 

 Canada at an annual charge of six or seven hundred 

 thousand pounds. This sum is raised by an Excise, 

 ■which revels in the destruction of manufactures, and 

 the beggary of ten thousand honest families f. From 

 the province itself we never raised, nor hope to raise 

 a fliilling of revenue ; and the single reason why its 

 inhabitants endure our dominion for a month longer, 

 is, to secure the money we spend among them. 



y.i^:::^%^. timothy THUNDERPROOr. 



REMARKS ON GRAMMAR. 



Of all the sciences that can engage the attention of 

 man in the ordinary course of studies, that of gram» 

 MAR is perhaps the most intricate. When this is 



• In the war of 1775, Briti(h officers pilfered booki from a public li- 

 brary, which had been founded at Phihdelphia by an individual more 

 truly estimable than one half of the whole profcfsion put together j I need 

 hardly subjoin the name of Franklin. 



■f- Look into K-aisely'i or Robertson's tax table: : What concise ! 

 what tremendous Tolumes ! When our political writers boast of Britilh li- 

 berty, they remind us of Smollet's eobler in bedlam bombarding Con- 

 (Cancinople. If the victims who groan under our yoke, were acquainted 

 with the confusion and sliviry which our avarice or mad ambition hare 

 iaflicted on ourselves, a very considerable (hue of Chcir abhorrence woul4 

 ►t converted int© contempt or pity. 



