 and breakfasted at Mr.
Fenton's;
and, soon after, Mr.
Fenton
and his
Harry,
with Mr. and Mrs.
Clement,
attended their Visitants to
St. Albans,
where, All together, they spent the happiest Night: But that this Happiness was blended, at times, with the affecting Consideration of parting in the Morning.
For two succeeding Years and upward, little interesting happened, save that our Hero increased in Stature and all personal Accomplishments, and had happily got over the Measles and Small-Pox. He was now nearly Master of the
Latin
and
Greek
Languages. He could outrun the Rain-Deer, and outbound the Antelope. He was held in Veneration by all Masters of the noble Science of Defence. His Action was Vigour, his Countenance was Loveliness, and his Movement was Grace.
Harry,
by this time, was also versed in most of the select and interesting Portions of History. Mr.
Clement
had instructed him in the use of the Globes and Maps, and, as he there led him from Clime to Clime and Country to Country, he brought him acquainted with the different Manners, Customs, Laws, Polities, Governments, Rise, Progress, and Revolutions of the several Nations through which they passed. Finally, said
Clement,
you see, Master
Fenton,
that the mightiest States, like Men, have the Principles of Growth, as likewise of Dissolution within their own Frame. Like Men, they are born and die, have their Commencement and their Period. They arise, like the Sun, from the Darkness of
Poverty,
to
Temperance, Industry, Liberty, Valour, Power, Conquest, Glory,
(OPULENCE) and there is their Zenith. From whence they decline, to
Ease, Sensuality, Venality, Vice, Corruption, Cowardice, Imbecility, Infamy, Slavery.
And so good Night!
Mr.
Fenton
now judged it full time to give our Hero an Insight into the Nature of the Constitution of his own Country; a Constitution, of whose Construction, Poise, Action, and Counteraction, the lettered Mr.
Clement
had scarcely any Notion, and even the Learned in our Laws, and the Leaders in our Senate, but a very confused Idea.
For this especial Purpose he called
Harry
to his Closet. You are already, my Love, said he, a Member of the
British State,
and, on that Account, have many Privileges to claim, and many Duties to perform toward your Country in particular, independent of your general Duties to Mankind.
Should it please God to bless your Friends with the Continuance of your
