Excerpt from Letters From London, Written During the Years 1802 and 1803I shall not be less affected with the excesses to which pride, vanity, and ambition carry those, who, endeavouring to rise above, sink far below the standard of nature.A descendant of those ancestors, arriving here, might naturally ask, What invincible prejudice, what inveterate bigotry, or what preeminent virtue, induced our forefathers to leave this country for a desert f Thank God, their posterity know how to answer the question Three thousand miles and a desert they justly thought a full equivalent for what they left behind - notwithstanding, the maxims of Europe followed them, but which, distance, in some degree, served to cleanse of their leprosy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.