Select Letters Taken from Fog's Weekly Journal Volume 1 (Paperback)

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. 1732 edition. Excerpt: ... this Enter-prize might be look'd upon as a Ufurpation and Violence, it will be now efteem'd a high Piece of Jufticc and Charity. 4 Suffer not therefore this Opportunity to flip thro" your Hands; and be affur'd, that if your other Expeditions againft Florence have produc'd nothing but Expence, Difficulty, Difhonour, and Dilap-pointment, this will make you ample Amends, and with little Hazard, turn to your great Honour and Advantage. Saturday, Off. u, 1729. Mr, Fo c, A VIN G by Chance feen a Whig Paper of the nth of laft Month (for as I don't deal in Politicks, I very rarely read the daily News Papers) I found a Jong Letter by Way of Ad-vertifement at the Ena of it, written, it feems, by a Perfon who is about to publifh a Hiftory of England fince the Union of the Crowns, I fhall not Trouble myfelf with Peoples Impatience for this Book's coming out. nor with their tMfappointment when it does come out; for if it be no truer, nor written with a better Defign, than Burnct's Hiftory of his own Time, it will juftly meet the lame Fate, and be deipifed by all Lovers of Truth and Honefty, I fhall not enquire b.ow the Publick came to be fb well acquainted with his Defign, as to alter fih fitle, if it be true that they have done fo; nor by what Means they found out that he intend his Book as a Rejlexion en the Weaknefi and Frailties of the Family of the SfC/ARfS. But, Mr. Fog, my Quarrel to the Letter, is, his bringing you and others in, as labouring to blanch the Chat abters of thofe Kings, (he means King fames the Firjl, and his Defcendants) there being nothing (as they would perfuade us) to endear them to you, and then his adding, that you did this out ofDiA refpect to that good King vibo lias a Right to our Allegiance and Duty. Pray, Mr. Fog, can you...