IN TWO VOLUME S.

By Henry Home, Lord times

VOLUME 11.

EDINBURGH:

Printed for W. CREECH, Edinburgh ; and for
W. STRAH A N, and T. CADELL, London,

MDCCLXXIV.

URING the infancy of a nation, every member de. pends on his own industry for procuring the necessaries of life: he is his own mason, his own tailor, his own

physician; and on himself he chiefly relies for offence as well as defence. Every favage can say, what few beggars a· mong us can say, Omnia mea mecum porto ; and hence the aptitude

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