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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. 1714 Excerpt:...too high, asserting the Divine Right of Kings. This Species of Government, which the Learned P te fays, is as ill fitted for our Nation as Popery is for cur Religion, was by fome People, it seems, endeavoured to be brought in, whom he terms an ipipudent and clamorous F.ittion. Whether that impudent and clamorous Faction would really do all thofe tilings he charges them with, is, by the Whigs, denied, and' charitable Men may in part mike a Qacltion; but that by this, he did, and coak; then only mean the Whigs, could be no Queition at all; since none else were ever charged with thofe Crimes in thefe Kingdoms; and they have always been fo, tho' seldom indeed fo heavily, unlefs by high-flying Tories or Jacobites. It feems his L p had dreadful Apprehensions of what they would certainly do, and begs of God evermore to. preferve us from this Species: And furely he was in the right, lor that would be, indeed, giving jus n)e know not what His Lordlhip's Enemies to'M tell the rest with Pleafure!. TH E greatest part of the prefent Generation have been bred up in War; and having been accustomed to judge by Principles which otain'il in the World foon after the Revolution, arc entirely unacquainted with those Notions which Oik Forefathers had, concerning the Interest detain: la forms Times, this Nation held the Balance of Power in-Europe; the Weight of Wtm wasalways ready, but leldom actually thrown into either Scale. Look back into the Condu3 os Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, and the wifest of our Princes, Queen Elizabeth, you wiling they feldom engag'd in any Land-War; and" they did, the Duration of it was as fhort as they could possibly contrive to make it. Queen beth assisted Henrythe Fourth of Frante, as wells the State»General, with Troops; but the...