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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1803. Excerpt: ... SOME FREE THOUGHTS UPON THE PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS: WITH SOME CONSIDERATIONS UPON THE CONSEQUENCES HOPED AND FEARED FKOM THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN. About a month before the demise of queen Anne, the Dean having laboured to reconcile the ministers to each other without success, retired to the house of a friend in Berkshire, and'never saw them mdre. But during this retreat he wrote the following treatise which he thought might be of some use even in that juncture, and sent it up to London to be printed; but, upon some difference in opinion between the author and the late lord Bolingbroke, the publication was delayed till the queen's death, and then he recalled his copy: it was afterwards placed in the hands of alderman Barber, from whom it was obtained to be printed. The ruin of the ministry, by this animosity among themselves, was long foreseen and foretold by Swift, and it appears by lord Bolingbroke's letter to Sir William Wyndham, that in his heart he renounced his friendship for Oxford long before the conclusion of the peace, though it did not appear till afterwards. "The peace," says he, " which had been;udged to be the only solid foundation whereupon we could erect a tory system, and yet when it was made we found ourselves at a stand; nay, the very work, which ought to have been the basis' of our strength, was in part demolished before our eyes, and we were stoned with the ruins of it." This event probably rendered the disunion of the ministry risible; some, principally endeavouring to secure themselves, some, still labouring to establish at all events the party they had espoused, which saw nothing but " increase of mortification, and nearer approaches to ruini" and it is not to be wondered at, that, when trrs treatise was written, the Dean's attempts...
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