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The Life And Adventures Or Peter Porcupine;
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES or PETER PORCUPINE ;
WITH A FULL AND FAIR ACCOUNT OF ALL 1115 AUTHOlllNfi TnAN-SACTlONS-.
THE subject of these memoirs is the author of several well-known pamphlets , in America , some of which have been reprinted in England . As the adversary of Paine , his triumph has be' i very complete , and as the historian of Dr . Priestley ' s reception ii Vmerica , he has led the Doctor to entertain less favourable opinions of the inhabitants of that Land of Promise than he did while at home . Peter Porine ' s successin his own bold hand peculiar style of political
cup , , roug , writing , entitles him to our notice ; and the manner in which he has espoused the British cause in America , to our respect . We shall , as opportunity presents , lay before our readers his Life , as written by himself . TO be descended from an illustrious familcertainly reflects
hoy , nour on any man , in spite of the Sans-Culolle principles of the present day . This is , however , an honour that I . have no pretension to . All that I can boast of in my birth is , that I was born in Old Englandthe country from whence came the men who explored and settled North America—the country of Penn , and of the father and mother of General Washington .
With respect to my ancestors , I shall go no further back than my grandfather , and for this plain reason , that I never heard talk of any prior to him . He was a day-labourer , and I have heard my father sav , that he worked for one farmer from the day of his marriage to that of his death , upwards of forty years . He died before I was born ; but I have often slept beneath the same roof that had sheltered him ,
and where his widow dwelt for several years after his death . It was a little thatched cottage , ' with a garden before the door . It had but two windows ; a damson tree shaded one , and a clump of filberts the other . Here I and my brothers went every Christmas and Whitsuntide , to spend a week or two , and torment the poor old woman with our noise and delapidations . She used to give us milk and bread for
breakfast , an apple-pudding for our dinner , and a piece of bread and cheese-for supper . Her fire was made of turf , cut from the-neighbouring heath , and her evening lig ht was a rush dipped in grease . How much better is it thus to tell the naked truth , than to descend to such miserable shifts as Dr . Franklin has had recourse to , in order to persuade people that his fore-fathers were men of wealth and consideration ! Not being able to refer his reader to the Herald's Office for proofs of the fame and antiquity of his family , he appeals to the etymology of his name , and poii ?! s out a passage in an obsolete book ,
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The Life And Adventures Or Peter Porcupine;
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES or PETER PORCUPINE ;
WITH A FULL AND FAIR ACCOUNT OF ALL 1115 AUTHOlllNfi TnAN-SACTlONS-.
THE subject of these memoirs is the author of several well-known pamphlets , in America , some of which have been reprinted in England . As the adversary of Paine , his triumph has be' i very complete , and as the historian of Dr . Priestley ' s reception ii Vmerica , he has led the Doctor to entertain less favourable opinions of the inhabitants of that Land of Promise than he did while at home . Peter Porine ' s successin his own bold hand peculiar style of political
cup , , roug , writing , entitles him to our notice ; and the manner in which he has espoused the British cause in America , to our respect . We shall , as opportunity presents , lay before our readers his Life , as written by himself . TO be descended from an illustrious familcertainly reflects
hoy , nour on any man , in spite of the Sans-Culolle principles of the present day . This is , however , an honour that I . have no pretension to . All that I can boast of in my birth is , that I was born in Old Englandthe country from whence came the men who explored and settled North America—the country of Penn , and of the father and mother of General Washington .
With respect to my ancestors , I shall go no further back than my grandfather , and for this plain reason , that I never heard talk of any prior to him . He was a day-labourer , and I have heard my father sav , that he worked for one farmer from the day of his marriage to that of his death , upwards of forty years . He died before I was born ; but I have often slept beneath the same roof that had sheltered him ,
and where his widow dwelt for several years after his death . It was a little thatched cottage , ' with a garden before the door . It had but two windows ; a damson tree shaded one , and a clump of filberts the other . Here I and my brothers went every Christmas and Whitsuntide , to spend a week or two , and torment the poor old woman with our noise and delapidations . She used to give us milk and bread for
breakfast , an apple-pudding for our dinner , and a piece of bread and cheese-for supper . Her fire was made of turf , cut from the-neighbouring heath , and her evening lig ht was a rush dipped in grease . How much better is it thus to tell the naked truth , than to descend to such miserable shifts as Dr . Franklin has had recourse to , in order to persuade people that his fore-fathers were men of wealth and consideration ! Not being able to refer his reader to the Herald's Office for proofs of the fame and antiquity of his family , he appeals to the etymology of his name , and poii ?! s out a passage in an obsolete book ,