Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 86 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 86: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or essay titled "A Month's Tour" (page 86). The text discusses a kingdom's relationship with Britain, arguing that its people must maintain loyalty to their "mother country" and the British navy for prosperity, while attributing their grievances to "pride and laziness." The passage compares their land favorably to Canaan, praising its natural resources and blessings from Providence. The language and typography are distinctly 18th or early 19th century, with period spelling conventions (such as "fuch" for "such" and "ftrenuoufly" for "strenuously").
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
6 A MON.THs TOUR try; but fhould they be puffed up with» felf-important notions, and turn them againft their mother country, they will inevitably prove its ruin. ‘The natural fituation of this kingdom is fuch, that it can never flourifly but under the friendly protection of the Britifh navy. The only grievances that want redrefs- mg, arife chiefly from their own pride and lazinefs. If they could be prevailed on to fhake off thefe, and ftrenuoufly cul- tivate the advantages they derive from na- ture, they could not fail to be a flourifhing and happy people. “ Providence has diftri+ buted his-bleffings to them with a bounte- ous ‘hand; their country, like Canaan, is a land of brooks: of water, and its bowels - contain: inexhauftible treafures.. On comicbooks.com