The best judges among the ancients have represented Pronunciation, which they likewise called Action, as the principal part of an orator's province, from whence he is chiefly to expect success in the art of persuasion. The British Cesar too hath done the same, And doom'd this age to everlasting fame. The most sanguine in Britain do not think so. The utmost stretch of human wisdom cannot, at this time, compass a plan, short of separation, which can promise the Continent even a year's security.
Reconciliation is now a fallacious dream.
Nature hath deserted the connection, and art cannot supply her place. Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. After this I went to sleep again, and sleeping a short time I awoke.