Thomas Day — British Author born on June 22, 1748, died on September 28, 1789

Thomas Day was a British author and abolitionist. He was well known for the children's book The History of Sandford and Merton which emphasized Rousseauvian educational ideals... (wikipedia)

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.