ich In his new post, his restless and
place he had so ill fortune (26) unquiet imagination found
(his working and unquiet fancy opportunity for creating and
raising and infusing a thousand diffusing a thousand conscientious
scruples of conscience, which (5) scruples that had not been brought
_they_ had not brought over with over, or ever even heard of, by the
them, nor heard of before) (19) colonists. His government proved a
that he unsatisfied with failure: and, mutually
them and they with him, dissatisfied, (45) governed and
he retransported himself governor parted. Vane returned
into England; (30) (43) (44) to England, but not till he had
having sowed such seed of accomplished his mischievous task,
dissension there, as grew up too not till he had sown the seeds of
prosperously, and miserably those miserable dissensions which
divided the poor colony into afterwards grew only too
several factions, and divisions prosperously, till they split the
and persecutions of each (15 _a_) wretched colony into distinct,
_other_, (30) (43) which still hostile, and mutually persecuting
continue _to the great_ (54) factions. His handiwork still
_prejudice of that plantation_: remains, and it is owing to (15)
insomuch as some of (5) _them_, _him_ that some of the colonists,
upon the ground of their first on the pretext of liberty of
expedition, liberty of conscience, conscience, the original cause of
have withdrawn themselves from (5) their emigration, have withdrawn
_their_ jurisdiction, and obtained themselves from the old colonial
other charters from the king, by jurisdiction and have obtained
which, (30) (43) in other forms of fresh charters from the king.
government, they have enlarged These men have established new
their plantations, within new forms of government, unduly
limits adjacent to (5) (15 _a_) enlarged their boundaries, and set
_the other_.their plantations, up rival settlements on the
within new limits adjacent to (5) borders of the original colony.
(15 _a_) _the other_.
FOOTNOTES:
[19] The original metaphor uses the crown as a prop, which seems a
confusion. Though the metaphor is so common as scarcely to be regarded
as a metaphor, it is better to avoid the appearance of confusion.
[20] We sometime
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