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Excerpt from Advice To, and Con?derations for the Electors of Members to Serve in the Ensuing Parliament: With Extracts for the Better Information of Such as Reside in the Country
But that this is' far enough from being the Cafe, our new Politicians are forward enough to own, when it ferves their Purpofe. It is nor unpleafant to obferve them, contradicting themfelves; to hear them gravely doubt ing whether they {hou'd end one far our of Necelfi ty, or begin another out of W'antonnefs: If the hip pofed Pride and Stubbornefs of a few Dutch Provinces is to be challifed then great-britain is fer forth with her Shield and Spear, and all the Emblems of her Greatnefs are difplayed; then her succeltes can be re membred, her Riches confelfed, her Power maenified; alone {he conquers Provinces, and reduces Kingdoms, and threatens to cope with Friend and Enemy. But is an ill Peace to be forc'd upon her, immediately the very fame Hands fall to work to {trip her of all her Grandeur, borh imaginary and real She is made to confefs Wants {he never felt, and weakneiies {he was never guilty of All on a fudden {he is difpe0pled by f' War, impoverilhed by Taxes, eaten up by Debts: overf read with Profanefs, mm in Pieces with Faétion, impoleed upon, by foreign Friends, and plundered by do meitick Enemies. This is the Drefs in which {he is made to belietie it will belt become her to fupplicate for Peace, This is the moving Figure by which [he is to'foften that obdurate Enemy, whom her. Many Succe?'es have nor yet been able to compel to Reafon Since hum bling him proves a Work of Labour and Difficulty, the lhorter and cheaper Way, {he is told, is to humble he felf; to cancel hei' pal't Succefl'es by Inacftion; to expiate her Zeal in forming Alliances, by abandoning her Allies; and her Forwardnefs in pufhing the War, by yielding up the molt valuable Fruits of her ff Victories.
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