Excerpt from Britons Awake, and Look About You: Or, Ruin the Inevitable Consequence of a Land-War, Whether Successful, or Not, Humbly Recommended to the Serious Consideration of All True Britons In Effect, the true Intere/t of Great Britain, is (0 very obvious, to any Perion of common-senfie, and common-honefiy, that a Man mu/t wink bard, before he can pofibly mi/ta/ee it; and yet there are finne certain People, whom we don't expel? To convince, by all the Arguments we can poflibly ufe; nay, whom we would n0t undertake to convince, that the San jbined, when in its full Height, on the very brigbtejt Day in 7um, (though its Beams fcorched every one elfe around them) if they were provided, with fome weighty Reafons to the contrary, in their Poelretr. When we fay, we would not undertake to convince them, we mean, not (0 far as to make them own their Convic'tion; for otherwife it is impofiible, but Men, who have Penetration enough on all Other Occafions, fhould be inwardly perfuaded of a Truth, which glare; in tbe Eyer, of all the Rei't of their fellow-subjefts; but inch is the Force of Self-lateral, fuch is the Depravity of the Ge nerality of Mankind: To this, we owe all zbe Misfortuner, under which we have groan'd, and langui/l'd, for theic Twenty Xears lait pail; and to this, it is to be feared, we Iball {till owe many more. 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.