Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Stories of Torres Vedras, Vol. 1 of 3
IT is difficult to say, whether a state of peace or of war a?'ords the best means of becoming acquainted with the real character of nations. In an open state of hostility, there is less need of professing friendly sentiments that are not felt, or of dissimulating our animosities. In peace, on the contrary, the assumption of a benevolent disposition becomes politic; and while we hus band our resources for a future war, we avail ourselves of every means that intimacy affords to add a moral strength to our future physical exertions.
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