The Free-Thinker: Or, Essays of Wit and Humour Written by Dr Boulter, the Right Honourable Richard West, the Reverend Dr Gilbert Burnet, the Reverend MR Henry Stephens, and Ambrose Philips, in Three Vs the Third Ed, V 2 of 3
The Free-Thinker: Or, Essays of Wit and Humour Written by Dr Boulter, the Right Honourable Richard West, the Reverend Dr Gilbert Burnet, the Reverend MR Henry Stephens, and Ambrose Philips, in Three Vs the Third Ed, V 2 of 3
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1739 Excerpt: ...I hae, for three Months, discontinued my political Lectures; my attentive Disciples may remember, that I have, in some of them, hinted at several seemingly unaccountable, and almost fatal, Mistakes in the Administration of our publick Affairs, during the last Century. I consider every Promise, I make, as a Debt; for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1739 Excerpt: ...I hae, for three Months, discontinued my political Lectures; my attentive Disciples may remember, that I have, in some of them, hinted at several seemingly unaccountable, and almost fatal, Mistakes in the Administration of our publick Affairs, during the last Century. I consider every Promise, I make, as a Debt; for which, I stand accountable to my Readers: Therefore, in performance of a promissory Hint, towards the Close of my Hundred and fourth Lecture; I shall now endeavour to lay open some at least of the principal Causes, to which most of our political Mismanagements may very probably be ascribed. It is much easier to point out Errours in the Conduct of Men, than either to assign the particular Causes from whence they spring, or to propose expedient Remedies for past Mischiefs, or even to prescribe proper Methods to prevent the like Evils, for the suture. In private Lise, this Observation is evident to every Man;. and, upon Reflection, it will be found yet more manifest, in regard to the Actions of Ministers of State. There is a strange Infatuation in the generality of Men, that inclines them to make the least Use of their Reason, in proportion as the Necessity and Difficulty of their Asfairs require, they should exert it to the utmost. The important Consequences, which attend the Actions of a Person, who is at the Head of Affairs, are apt to alarm him with Fears, and to render him incapable of forming a Resolution. His Mind, unsettled by Doubts, is in a perpetual Fluctuation: And, when the Point, of Time approaches, in which he must come to some Determination, what he sinally resolves, is not because he judges it reasonable; but, because he is necessitated to do something. Hence it is, that Persons, who manage their domestick Affairs, and the minute O...
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