The Patriot

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Excerpt from The Patriot: Addressed to the People, on the Present State of Affairs in Britain and in France, With Observations on Republican Government, and Disscussions of the Principles Advanced in the Writings of Thomas PaineThe period of the laft century in which the te public itood, was the period of the extinction of liberty. The adminiitration of government was vigorous indeed, like that of Muley Ifhmael or T ippoo Saib. The fpies and agents of the Pro tector were every where, and the executioners followed in their train. The nation found, to their forrow, that inftead of gaining new privi leges under the Republic, they had loft the few which the family of Stuart had refpeéted that in their eagernefs to obtain a fudden relief, they had incurred hoplefs deltrué'tion, and that, inrtead of the free conl'titution, and the reign of the faints, which their leaders had promifed, they had oh tained a Dey and a Divan, modelled after the pattern of the republic of Algiers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.