I have been warmed and delighted with the enchanting picture which they hold forth.

I ardently wish for such happy improvements.

But I see great, and, to my understanding, unconquerable difficulties in the way to them.

These difficulties it is my present purpose to state, declaring, at the same time, that so far from exulting in them, as a cause of triumph over the friends of innovation, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see them completely removed.
The most important argument that I shall adduce is certainly not new.
The principles on which it depends have been explained in part by Hume, and more at large by Dr Adam Smith.

It has been advanced and applied to the present subject, though not with its proper weight, or in the most forcible point of view, by Mr Wallace, and it may probably have been stated by many writers that I have never met with.