Baratariana: A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces, Published During the Administration of Lord Townshend in Ireland (Classic Reprint)

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The liberty of. The prefs (it were vain to deny it) has advanced to great ma turity, under the prefent reign. Its progrefs is eafily accounted fan - During the life of the late Monarch, the prei's f poke the language of iqfiuuation. His Majeily, a plain, honefi gentleman, of the houfe of Hanover, was not likely to deferve, or to punifh, or indeed to nu: derfland, libels. -there wasno lazy/k: n'ou: attacbment in bi: family, an allu fion to which could never be forgiven; Hi: court was not always without fome claim to principle, and did not advance extravagant pretenfions to devotion pretenfions, fufpicious to the fimpli'city of theiengliih, not yet accufiomed to the novelty of a puritanical piety, (cleft, ing, for its fupport, men of the mofi diflblute morals.

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