Author: Joseph Brown

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9780260190802

Excerpt from Food of the People: A Letter to Henry Fenwick, Esq., M. P.; With a Postscript on the Diet of Old Age Take a general survey of England at this moment, and how gratifying to a patriotic spirit is the view Her commerce spreads its wings over the entire world, and by its extension enables a wise statesman to diminish, on the one hand, the burdens of her people, and on the other, to place her finances in such a posi tion that she alone of all great nations of the world can boast Of a revenue exceeding her expenditure. And, strange to say, this is taking place not only in spite of a war, regarding which it was foretold that England must either take a part in it or be utterly ruined, but because of it. Well may we say that man proposes, but a far greater Power than man disposes a hackneyed saying certainly, but hackneyed because of its emphatic truth. How especially must the patri otic spirit be cheered when it sees the great colonies of America, the genuine issues of England's own bosom, cling to the Saturnian land which gave them birth, and aghast at the spectacle of the blood-stained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.