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England. Excellence of its government, ii. 370. General satire received in it with thanks instead of offence, whereas in Athens it might only be personal, ii. 66. The political state of it described, vi. 142. What the bulk of the people in, 220. Degeneracy of the people of, 234. State of in queen Anne's time, 296. What the only means the people of it have to pull down a ministry and government they are weary of, xvii. 282. What necessary to frighten the people of it once a year, 286. Prosecuted the war with greater disadvantages than either its enemies or allies, and less able to recover itself at the conclusion of it, iii. 9. 396. Ought not to have been a principal in the confederate war with France, iii. 340. 344. Had no reason to boast of its success in that under king William, 343. No nation ever so long and scandalously abused by its domestick enemies and foreign friends, 344. Its strength shamefully misapplied to ends very different from those for which the war was undertaken, 349. Carried on the war at a great expense in Spain, on a vain belief that the Spaniards, on the first appearance of a few troops, would revolt to the house of Austria, 351. Neglected to use her maritime power in the West Indies, 353. The reason alleged for this conduct, 354. Must mortgage the malt tax, to carry on the war another campaign, 394. The landed popish interest in it much greater than in Ireland, iv. 329. Received the reformation in the most regular way, 339. What it gets yearly by land,