And What if the Pretender should Come?
And What if the Pretender should Come?
By Daniel Defoe
4 Jun, 2020
Excerpt...... If the danger of the pretender is really so great as the noise which some make about it seems to suppose, if the hopes of his coming are so well-grounded, as some of his friends seem to boast, it behooves us who are to be the subjects o
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Excerpt...... If the danger of the pretender is really so great as the noise which some make about it seems to suppose, if the hopes of his coming are so well-grounded, as some of his friends seem to boast, it behooves us who are to be the subjects of the approaching revolution, which his success must necessarily bring with it, to apply ourselves seriously to examine what our part will be in the play, that so we may prepare ourselves to act as becomes us, both with respect to the government we are now under, and with respect to the government we may be under, when the success he promises himself shall (if ever it shall) answer his expectation. Less