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Excerpt from A Gleam of Comfort to This Distracted Empire, in Despite of Faction, Violence, and Cunning, Demonstrating the Fairness and Reasonableness of National Confidence in the Present Ministry: Addressed to Every Englishman, Who Has at Heart the Real Happiness of His Country
But let us not be debauched by figures! Let us take off the veil that fhrouds this Pagod - behold the oracle difrobed of its mantle, and what a combination of defot mity prefents itfelf! What a mafs of fraud, impofture, ignorance, inconfif'tency, folly, cormption, and violence, make up this vaunted fyfiem on which this nation prides itfelf, and for which we are fo juflly the butt of Europe! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
