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Excerpt from A Defence of the Enquiry Into the Reasons of the Conduct of Great-Britain, &C: Occasioned by the Paper Published in the Country-Journal or Craftsman on Saturday, Jan; 4, 1728-9
A the World an Enquiry into t/ye Reafons of the Condue't of Great Britain, with relation to the State of Affairs then in Europe. In writing this, I had the firie'tefi Regard to Truth and Decency. I had no Motive to eh gage me in fach a Work, but the Importance of the Subjer'l to my Native Country; and in the'profecurion ofit, i can truly fay, I did not fiir one Step without being thoroughly fatis ?ed of the Truth of what Iallerted. If I have mifiaken, or mifreprefented, any one fingle Point. Through the Whole it mul't have pro teded from an Inadvertency or Weaknel's not always to be guarded again? Becaul'e I am as fare, as I am that [am now alive, that it could nor precede from any wilful Defign, or Incile nation, to pot any falfe Colours upon a Caufe in which the whole Nation was (0 deeply ia terefied. Iqould not think it unbecoming any A a Member(4)
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