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contrive to insult him, by any unpleasant 

 expression they can make use of; and 

 their conduct in this respect may in some 

 measure be accounted for, from the better 

 sort of people, in common conversation, 

 always saying, if any thing is done better 

 than usual in the management of land, (as, 

 ploughing in a proper manner, &c.) or a 

 fine horse or cow is seen " It is like the 

 English :" and that such preference is con- 

 stantly given to the English, disgusts them 

 much. If a man hears himself and his 

 country abused in foreign countries, as I con- 

 tinually heard England and its inhabitants 

 abused in America, he must feel himself un- 

 comfortable ; the general character I heard 

 given to them in conversation when I was 

 not known (so that it might not be particu- 

 larly offensive to me) is, that the English are 

 a set of plunderers, who rob all nations for 

 their riches, and could not exist if they were 

 not continually at war that the nation is 

 ruined, and owes a debt it never can pay, &c. 

 After my sons, ancf myself, had hoed the 



