Leviathan by David Scott

Author:David Scott [David Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

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The Balance of Europe, 1714–54

Tho’ the malcontents in Britain warmly declaimed against a land war, and urged, that as an Island, we should vigorously carry on the war by sea, and take no share in the affairs of the Continent; Yet ’tis certainly the interest of Britain to maintain the power of the House of Austria as the only proper Rival to the House of Bourbon [France]; for whoever conquers and gives law on the Continent, will soon do so likewise in the Islands; and if once the Netherlands and united Provinces are subdued by France, the Religion, the liberties, the trade of Britain cannot long subsist.

Anon., ‘A Concise Account of the War begun with

Spain in 1739’ (c.1748)1

Germans and Jacobites

When George in Pudding time came o’er,

And Moderate Men looked big, Sir,

My Principles I chang’d once more,

And so became a Whig, Sir.

And thus Preferment I procur’d,

From our Faith’s great Defender

And almost every day abjur’d

The Pope, and the Pretender.2

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