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to be found only in society, he may finally be 

 wrought up to all the distinctions of an accom- 

 plished pointer. 



But before we enter upon this tactical part 

 of the business, I shall claim the privilege of 

 making a short digression, in the shape of an 

 address to a class of gentlemen, with an eye 

 more immediately to whom the present volume 

 has taken the shape in which it now appears, 

 and whose approbation I look forward to with 

 some degree of solicitude ; I mean particularly 

 that respectable class of individuals in the 

 country, to whom, as so directly connected with 

 the soil, the sports of the field more immediately 

 belong; who, in consequence of such connexion, 

 are at present, as they ought to be, many of 

 them at least, engaged as the military defenders 

 of their country; and who, whenever the day 

 of trial shall come, I doubt not, will be found 

 nobly to redeem the pledge they are honourably 

 giving, and to act their parts as though just 

 summoned by the hovering spirit of the immortal 

 hero, who gloriously fell in the arms of victory, 

 calling, in the name of England, " on every man 

 to do his duty." To the understandings of those 

 gentlemen it is that I am desirous of making a 

 brief, but decisive appeal. Is there a man 

 among them who would show himself so unfit 



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