nourable a Task.

One wou'd think, that towards advancing this Scheme, all the _Literati_
of this Kingdom had sent their Powers to Him. That all the Whigs as well
as Tories had entrusted him with their Proxies; for he says _I do here
in the Name of all the Learned and Polite Persons of the Nation
complain, &c._ Whereas whatever has been brag'd by him in other Papers
of the Nine in Ten, being on his side for the Land and Church Interest,
not nine in a thousand will trust him with that of Wit. And I do here in
the Name of all the Whigs, protest against all and every thing done or
to be done in it, by him or in his Name; being a Person with whom they
will have no manner of Dealings, as he very well knows, or they might
now have had him Scribbling for them as well as when that Discourse was
written _of the Contests and Dissentions of the Nobles and Commons in
+Athens+ and +Rome+_, wherein it is said, _'tis agreed, that in all
Governments there is an absolute unlimited Power which naturally and
originally seems to be plac'd in the People +in the whole Body+;
wherever the Executive part lies_; again, _this unlimited Power plac'd
fundamentally in the Body of a People, &c._ and that he wrote better
then than he has done since is not to be wonder'd at, if there is any
truth in what _Longinus_'s Philosopher says.

It would be a poor Triumph to convict him of an Error in History 1700
Years ago, where he tells us, That _Caesar_ never attempted this Island;
_no Conquest was ever attempted till the Time of +Claudius+_, since I do
not find that he or his Brethren have any Notion at all that Truth is
necessary in History: For they deny what was done Yesterday, as frankly
as if it had been in _Julius Caesar_'s Time; yet he himself has been
sometimes forc'd to confess the Power of Truth, and pay Allegiance to
it; as where he says, the great Reason of the Corruption of the _Roman_
Tongue _was the changing their Government into Tyranny, which ruined the
Study of Eloquence_; and because the _Whigs_ shall have a Share in it,
he adds, and their calling in the _Palatines, their giving several Towns
in +Germany+ the Freedom of the City_. A very pleasant Reason that; for
when the _Roman_ Language was in the height of its Purity in the
_Augustan_ Age, the Cities of _Asia_ and _Africk_ were admitted to that
Privilege, as much as the _Europeans_ were afterwards; and yet it cannot
be pretended the _Moors_ were naturally more Polite than the _Germans