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INTRODUCTION.
The revolution threw us into a new scene of action, and the wars we carried on on the continent, at the same time that they secured the independency of Europe, opened new channels for our trade to flow in: but the most remarkable event of King William's reign, was the beginning of a public debt, which has since been attended with such wonderful consequences[1].
The
- ↑ The historian now gives us a specimen of his prudence; he neither tells us whether the consequences have been good or bad which attended the national debt, but leaves it, to avoid disagreeable reflections, upon the reader to determine. In the course of these three annotations, the rea-
were doing nothing at all. The critics may, in all probability, object to this passage in the text, but we would have these gentlemen remember what Mr. Pope says,
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