than to wear our liveries; while others, who, by their credit, quality, and fortune, were only able[1] to give reputation and success to the Revolution, were not only[1] laid aside as dangerous and useless, but loaden with the scandal of Jacobites[2], men of arbitrary principles, and pensioners to France; while truth, who is said to lie in a well, seemed now to be buried there under a heap of stones. But I remember, it was a usual complaint among the whigs, that the bulk of the landed men was not in their interests, which some of the wisest looked on as an ill omen; and we saw it was with the utmost difficulty, that they could preserve a majority, while the court and ministry were on their side, till they had learned those admirable expedients for deciding elections, and influencing distant boroughs, by powerful motives from the city. But all this was mere force and constraint, however upheld by most dextrous artifice and management, until the people began to apprehend their properties, their religion, and the monarchy itself in danger; when we saw them greedily laying hold on the first occasion to interpose. But of this mighty change in the disposi-
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Were only able by this arrangement the word, only, becomes of ambiguous meaning, and the ear is hurt by the repetition of the same words, at the commencement of the two members of the sentence so near each other were only able were not only, &c. This may be prevented by substituting the word, alone, in the place of the first, only; as thus 'While others, who, by their credit, quality, and fortune, were alone able to give reputation and success to the Revolution, were not only laid aside,' &c.
- ↑ But loaden with the scandal of Jacobites may mean with the scandal thrown on them by Jacobites; it should be with the scandal of being Jacobites, &c.
