Est brevitate opus, ut currat Sententia ...
Hor.

I have somewhere read of an eminent Person, who used in his private Offices of Devotion to give Thanks to Heaven that he was born a

Frenchman:

For my own part, I look upon it as a peculiar Blessing that I was Born an

Englishman

.

[Among]

many other Reasons, I think my self very happy in my Country, as the

Language

of it is wonderfully adapted to a Man