Being A CHOICE COLLECTION OF TALES, ANECDOTES, OCCURRENCES, And various Pieces in Prose and Uerse, Interspersed with MANY ORIGINAL PIECES; Never before published. FROM THE WORKS OF AN OLD MILITARY OFFICER. In Three Volumes. VOL. II. LONDON: PUBLISHED, FOR THE EDITOR, MALL. GLEANINGS OF WIT. "The Society of Moravians at Berlin, pre sented the King of Prussia, (a little before his Death,) a curious Petition, of which the following is an Extract : 66 Your Majesty knows that we have ever been faithful and loyal subjects; .and that we contribute to the prosperity of the country, by the establishment of divers manufactures. We have not the presumption to ascribe to ourselves the success that has attended our endea'vours, we know that it belongs wholly and solely to Jesus Christ. |
