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vi THE CONCLUSION. of Manchefter approaches. The brief hiftory of a town, the comprehenfive hiftory of a nation, the general hiftory of man, are all of them the records of human calamities and the regifters of human woes, of calamities which are generally pro- voked by vices* and of woes which are naturally produ&ive oP virtues, reinvigorating by the talk of trials that tone of the human mind which was pre.vioufly debilitated by ina&ivity, and by forceable appeals to the native thoughtfulnefs of the human* ibul aflerting thofe powers of religion which were previoufly finking in the fcnfualities of peace. The convullions of nature and the enormities of man, the war of elements and the fub- verfion of empires, are all finely directed by the controuling influence of Divinity to the great purpofes of fupporting the moral interefts of the world* and of imprefling the heart with the awful truths of religion «, THE* END OF BOOK THE EIRST.. APPEN-