Some Considerations Upon the State of Our Publick Debts in General, and of the Civil List in Particular (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Grief and Indignatio fa it, that England too, which ed by Nature and Situation to be the Pride[5] Pride and Glory of the vjorld, that has fo large a Dominion, 'fo exrenfive a Trade and. Immenfe Revenue, {honld be'funk and o'opgrefled by Debts and Anticipa tions, y needlefs' Offices and Sallaries, and, I wilh I could fay only, as needlefs fenfions, to fuch a Degree as to be fcarce a Match for the leifer States ofch'ril'ren 60m: We too plainly confefs the-trnth of this by our'man-ner of carrying on the refent War; forthough Fm'm'é and the mperor are orirallies, andwé'have no lahd'armies to m'aiiitain 1355011311; Cen tin'ent, nor expeniive expe titans; to the fflglndier, 'yet we,'tun indebt every 831 greatly toirnacintai'n intet'fea' only 'a defenfive War againi't a Country'éwhich Was'of no Weight during the'lafi and tormercontefis, inthe contrary Scale. Upon rhis'occaiion Icannot but won den at the Stupidity and miflaken'avarice 'oifoo many oi my Countrymen, who in a iate'reign thought it worth their Time to Urchafelittlefeeming Advantages rothem j, elves and Families at the Expence of their cou'ntr 's Rnin,an'd were contending with fogmnc e'agernel's. For a narrow Cabin, 1when the Ship its'felf is linking? 'twas jii'npendious to fee Men of great Fami lies and greater Efrate's watching the lsmiles and Nods'bf hungry Courtiers, courting[6.

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