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. 2010 Excerpt: ...two crowns to consent to that neceflary condition, was the use which was made of the Page 67. success success of the confederates against; France and Spain; and it was the only true and proper use that could be made of it; any other use (I mean such as the author suggests) would have been weak and treacherous. And here ...
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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. 2010 Excerpt: ...two crowns to consent to that neceflary condition, was the use which was made of the Page 67. success success of the confederates against; France and Spain; and it was the only true and proper use that could be made of it; any other use (I mean such as the author suggests) would have been weak and treacherous. And here I should be glad to know, if any of the author's friends can shew, from any of his posthumous works that have not yet appeared (for he had the modesty not to suffer his Sketch to be published till after his death, although written several years before-not caring, I suppose, to stand the shame of his abominable fictions); whether, I say, they can shew, that he or his friends the Tories (for they were greatly concerned in the administration) appeared to find fault with, or to give their opinion against the treaties made in 1703 with Portugal and Savoy, on account of its being therein stipulated--That no branch of the house of Bourbon should be left in possession of Spain and the West Indies; whether the Tories thought the plan laid down in those treaties was such a one one as England and Holland should never have entered into; nay, whether they did not applaud the plan, for being (as it cer tainly was) a master-piece of political, wis- dom at that great juncture. - It is true, that the Earl of NottingHam, then secretary of state, was not willing to agree to the article in that with Portugal, by which that king demanded the honour of the flag, and other marks of respect to be paid by cur admirals, when they should be in his ports; but this wa thought an objection too inconsiderable to be insisted on: All the affairs of Europe (as Burnet observes) seemed to turn upon this treaty; and such an important transaction ought not to be r...
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All Editions of An Answer to the Latter Part of Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study of History. by the Late Lord Walpole of Woolterton. in a Series of Letters to
