A Series of Wisdom and Policy: Manifested in a Review of Our Foreign Negotiations and Transactions for Several Years Past, Being a Complete Answerto ... of the Present Parliament (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Bath, William Pulteney

 
9780267840472: A Series of Wisdom and Policy: Manifested in a Review of Our Foreign Negotiations and Transactions for Several Years Past, Being a Complete Answerto ... of the Present Parliament (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Series of Wisdom and Policy: Manifested in a Review of Our Foreign Negotiations and Transactions for Several Years Past, Being a Complete Answerto Politicks on Both Sides, Etc, in a Letter to a Member of the Present Parliament

Oppreffion their Writings burnt by the common Hangman a Member expell'd the Houfe of Commons, and others underwent the molt grievous lmprifo'nments, expenfive Profecutions, and exor bitant Fines yet Reafm and Argument were at length triumphant. If when the Prefs was near being (0 reflrain'd, that the Mifli/lry might, in Elleét, have the fole Ufe of it, and' fcarce any Thing faw the Light, [am Privilege da Minijz'er If under this Reilraint of the great Palladium of our Liberties, publick Virtue and Patriotil'm pre vail'd, what have we to fear, while we enjoy this invaluable Blefling in its molt defirable Extent? Certain it is, that no Government ever exercis'd fo much Lenity and F orbearance towards'its Oppo fers, as the prefent have done towards theirs never were the fecret Springs of Aétion, the nicefi Ma chines of state-policy fo freely fcrutiniz'd and ex amin'd into; nor ever were, or perhaps ever will be, more to the Difhonour of thofe who {hall take upon them to determine againfi the Voice of the Re prefentative.

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