Chapter 15

There was little danger, he would say, of losing our liberties by _French_ politicks or _French_ invasions;——nor was he so much in pain of a consumption from the mass of corrupted matter and ulcerated humours in our constitution, which he hoped was not so bad as it was imagined;—but he verily feared, that in some violent push, we should go off, all at once, in a state-apoplexy;—and then he would say, _The Lord have mercy upon us all._ My father was never able to give the history of this distemper,—without the remed…