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Fears and jealousies ceased, or, An impartial discourse, tending to demonstrate from the folly and ill success of the Romish politics, that there is no reason to apprehend any danger from popery in a letter to a friend.Fears and jealousies ceas'd, or, An impartial discourse, tending to demonstrate from the folly and ill success of the Romish politicks, that there is no reason to apprehend any danger from popery in a letter to a friend.
London : s.n., 1688
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But tho' the Unfortunate Sabran has been thus stripped of his Learning, Politics, and Common Sense; yet his Philosophy will never forsake him; there's none, I'm sure, that can deny him to be perfectly endued but more especially about the Forehead) with all the Apathy of a most accomplished Stoic; for notwithstanding all his Disgraces, he has still the Courage to live, and in England too, the Scene of his Follies.
But tho' the Unfortunate Sabran has been thus stript of his Learning, Politicks, and Common Sense; yet his Philosophy will never forsake him; there's none, I'm sure, that can deny him to be perfectly endued but more especially about the Forehead) with all the Apathy of a most accomplish'd Stoick; for notwithstanding all his Disgraces, he has still the Courage to live, and in England too, the Scene of his Follies.
The Judicious Mr. Pulton, may perhaps take it ill that I have been so long a coming to him, but it is very probable that I shall some other time take an occasion of staying with him a little longer than he desires. I am a little out of breath at present, and therefore shall only tell him that I have read some of his Works, with as little prejudice as it is possible for one to entertain, that has the least knowledge of Popery; and all the punishment I would desire should be inflicted on the overgrown Grammarian, for all the Nonsensical Ribaldry wherewith he has pestered the World, is, That he were put a little while under old Busby's lash, he would then find, that did he use no better Arguments in a Declamation, than he does for his Religion, he'd receive more stripes then Choerilus, for betraying his Cause.
The Judicious Mr. Pulton, may perhaps take it ill that I have been so long a coming to him, but it is very probable that I shall some other time take an occasion of staying with him a little longer than he desires. I am a little out of breath at present, and therefore shall only tell him that I have read some of his Works, with as little prejudice as it is possible for one to entertain, that has the least knowledge of Popery; and all the punishment I would desire should be inflicted on the overgrown Grammarian, for all the Nonsensical Ribaldry wherewith he has pester'd the World, is, That he were put a little while under old Busbys lash, he would then find, that did he use no better Arguments in a Declamation, than he does for his Religion, he'd receive more stripes then Choerilus, for betraying his Cause.