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 that the Animosities of Those Times were not incidental, but inevitable.

 

HE Accession of the First seemed the Æra of perfect Freedom. And if an excellent King, at the Head of an unrivaled Constitution, could have secured Liberty; it had now been fixed on immoveable Foundations.

The Alloy of licentious Manners and contradictory Principles which had tarnished the preceding Reign, still maintained their Influence: But the declared and zealous Advocates for Liberty now assumed the Reins of Power, and began more effectually to combat those false Principles which were at Enmity with the State. 