The consummation of these qualities are the true ingredients for making a fine narrative in history, especially if followed by some signal and ruinous convulsion--as I hope will soon be the case with that pernicious people!" Even from the secure haven of James's Court, the maledictions continue to pour forth:-- "Nothing but a rebellion and bloodshed will open the eyes of that deluded people; though were they alone concerned, I think it is no matter what becomes of them....

Our government has become a chimera, and is too perfect, in point of liberty, for so rude a beast as an Englishman; who is a man, a bad animal too, corrupted by above a century of licentiousness.

The misfortune is that this liberty can scarcely be retrenched without danger of being entirely lost; at least the fatal effects of licentiousness must first be made palpable by some extreme mischief resulting from it.

I may wish that the catastrophe should rather fall on our posterity, but it hastens on with such large strides as to leave little room for hope.
I am running over again the last edition of my History, in order to correct it still further.

I either soften or expunge many villainous seditious Whig strokes which had crept into it.