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with the affectionate regards of his friends the Authon June.10.1823.

ESSAYS,

DESCRIPTIVE AND MORAL.

Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.

DESCRIPTIVE AND MORAL;

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AND FRANCE.

BY AN AMERICAN.

Bruen, Mathias.

"There is the moral of all human tales;

""Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,

"First Freedom, and then Glory-when that fails,
"Wealth, Vice, Corruption-Barbarism at last."

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