The Original Works of William King (Volume 3); Now First Collected with Historical Notes, and Memoirs of the Author (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.1776 Excerpt: ... A VINDICATION OF THE REVEREND DR. SACHEVERELL1. Vir bonus, et prudens, diet delector ego, ac tu'; u Si clamet Nebulo furem, neget esse pudicum, "Contendat laqueo collum presitsse paternum. "Mordear opprobriisfalfis, mutemque colores? "Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret "Quern, nisiMendofum, etMentUcem." Hor. Ep. I. xvi. It. - As a madman who casteth forth sire-brands, arrows, and death: "so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and faith, Am I - not'in sport? Where no wood is, there the sire goeth out: fe "where there is no Tale-bearer, the strise ceafcth." Prov. xxvi. / 18, 19, 20. "The treacherous dealers have dealt treacher oujly: vea the "treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously." ICxxiv. 16. Tory. AT Y old Friend, Destruction the only man I A.VJL wished to see. - Whig. How is this? What do you call me Destruction? I am a stranger to that name. To. What, a Whig, and a stranger to Destruction Sure you -re but young in that clan I look upon Whiggifm and Destruction to be inseparable: I never see one of vou, but desolation, and ruin, and all the ills of human lise, stand foremost in my thoughts; my surprized fancy gives me an extempore landskip of all the miseries and calamities of 41. The head of a Whig, unless upon a pole on the City-gate, has upon rae in some measure the essects of Medufa's in the days of yore; it brings a coldness upon my blood, stissens my joints, and for a little while gives me some relation to a statue. Wh. Hey-day the old verbose high-slying rant and yet, for all this, " I am the only man you wished to see." How does the compliment and the character consist? To. It-is really true; I never faw a Whig with fatisfaction before, unless it was Daniel De Foe in the pillory. I am gl-l 1...