Son, and give him a
regular liberal Education, it is one hundred to one, but he turns out a
Gentleman of Merit, Learning, Worth, and Politeness; whereas it would
certainly require more than _Herculean_ Labour to chissel a _French
Paisan_, a primitive _Westmoreland_, or _Devonshire_ Boor, not only into
the Form of an elegant, but even into that of a sociable Creature.

The Insignificancy of those Jesters and Spatterers, will more clearly
appear, if we look back to the wise, free, and truly parliamentary
Constitution of this Kingdom; if we recollect the vast Length of its
Duration, as a free and independant State; the military Prowess of its
Inhabitants in all Ages; their victorious Conflicts with the _Romans_, and
with the _French_ under _Henry_ the Vth, and the Black _Prince_; their
having founded a Monarchy in _North Britain_, whence, by a Right of
Descent, in Addition to every other, his present Majesty, (whom God long
preserve,) by the special Providence and infinite Mercy of Heaven, ruleth
over us: If we consider the Number of our Universities, Colleges, and
Academies, religious Monasteries and pious Seminaries, resorted to from
all civilized Parts of _Europe_, our Metropolitical and Diocesan
Cathedrals; on such impartial Review, surely, the foregoing Tribe of
Sneerers and Flouters must dwindle into deserved Contempt.

I shall close this feeble Attempt on the antient State of _Ireland_, with
the Description thereof by _Donat_, Bishop of _Fesulae_, near _Florence_,
in the 7th or 8th Century; referring, at the same Time, to the most
authentick _British_ Antiquaries, _Campden_, _Giraldus Cambrensis_,
_Buchanan_, _Ware_, &c. for Confirmation of what hath been previously
observed on the same Subject.

_Finibus Occiduis describitur optima Tellus,_
_Nomine et Antiquis __SCOTIA__ scripta Libris----_
_Insula dives Opum, Gemmarum, Vestis et Auri,_
_Commoda Corporibus, Aere sole Solo;_
_Melle fluit pulchris et lacteis __SCOTIA__ Campis_
_Vestibus atque Armis, frugibus, arte viris._
_Ursorum Rabies, nulla est ibi; saeva Leonum_
_Semina, nec unquam __SCOTICA__ Terra tulit_
_Nulla Venena nocent, nec Serpens serpit in Herba,_
_Nec conquesta canit Garula Rana Lacu;_
_In qua __SCOTORUM__ Gentes habitare merentur_
_Inclita Gens Hominum Milite, Pace, Fide._

Thus Englished by the Ingenius and Reverend Mr. _Dunkin_:

"Far Westward, lies an Isle of antient Fame,
By Nature bless'd, and SCOTIA is her Name;
Enroll'd in Books: Exh