Where ancient foxes ran.
How keener than the sportsman's chase
The hunt of man by man!
H. M.
Chapter XI.
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The Rev. John Miller, in 1695, speaks of "the wickedness and irreligion of the inhabitants, which abounds in all parts of the province, and appears in so many shapes, constituting so many sorts of sin, that I can scarce tell which to begin withal." The reverend gentleman was probably prejudiced.
Chapter XV.
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"English Free Trade; Its Foundation, Growth and Decline." By Henry Mann.
Chapter XVI.
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John Adams, in his letter to the President of Congress, July 17, 1780, attributes the outbreak of the Revolution to Hutchinson's course in this and other matters. "He was perhaps the only man in the world," wrote Adams, "who could have brought on the controversy between Great Britain and America in the manner and at the time it was done, and involved the two countries in an enmity which must end in their everlasting separation."