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Excerpt from Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks: Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain As our own country is blefi'ed with the greatet'c {hare of liberty, (015 it more fub jeci to civil difientions than any other nation in Europe. Every man is a politician, and warmly attached to his 1efpe6'tive party and this law of Solon's feems to take place as firongly in Britain, as eve1 it did in their woft factious times at Athens. Freedom of thought, or the liberty of the mind, arifes naturally from the very offence of our confiitution; and the liberty of the ptefs, that peculiar priviledge of the Britith fub jeci, gives every man a continual opportunity of laying his fentiments before the publick. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.