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the world, and the very heart of all England, where 

 my forefathers, thousands of years ago, assembled 

 to hunt the Wild Bull, the Wolf, and the Boar." 

 He \vas once going on at this rate, when he was 

 interrupted by a sedate, experienced Bitch, who 

 assured him that there were good Dogs and bad 

 Dogs in every country, and that the only difference 

 arose from their education ; that many of the fore- 

 fathers he boasted of, had long since worried each 

 other, and the remainder of them had become so 

 troublesome, that part had been transported across 

 the sea to another place; and she knew, from good 

 authority, that both his father and his mother were 

 hanged. 



APPLICATION. 



WHEN foreigners speak slightingly of the country 

 they happen to be in, and praise their own, it shews 

 in them a want of good sense and good breeding. 

 It is indeed natural to have an affection for one's 

 native land, nor can we help preferring it to every 

 other; but to express this in another country, to 

 people whose opinion it must needs contradict, by 

 the same rule that it is conformable to our own, 

 cannot fail of giving them just offence. It matters 

 not how highly some particular countries may 

 stand in the estimation of the rest of the world : 

 this has little to do with private individuals ; the 

 advantage of having been born in one of those 

 favoured countries, is accidental, and no man ought 

 to be esteemed merely on that account. In order 

 to merit the respect of virtuous and wise men in 

 every foreign land, it must appear to them, that by 

 our talents, our acquirements, and our patriotism, 

 we do credit to the country which gave us birth. 



