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Jacobitism was a political movement that polarized the United Kingdom in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Its supporters were in favor of re-installing King James II and his heirs to the throne. In this lengthy satirical essay, Robinson Crusoe author Daniel Defoe excoriates the movement and its followers.

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 mai 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776587353
Langue	English

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REASONS AGAINST THE SUCCESSION OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER
HOW FAR THE ABDICATION OF KING JAMES, SUPPOSING IT TO BE LEGAL, OUGHT TO AFFECT THE PERSON OF THE PRETENDER
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DANIEL DEFOE

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Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover How Far the Abdication of King James, Supposing it to Be Legal, Ought to Affect the Person of the Pretender First published in 1713 Epub ISBN 978-1-77658-735-3 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77658-736-0 © 2014 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
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What strife is here among you all? And what a noise about who shall orshall not be king, the Lord knows when? Is it not a strange thing wecannot be quiet with the queen we have, but we must all fall intoconfusion and combustions about who shall come after? Why, pray folks,how old is the queen, and when is she to die? that here is this pothermade about it. I have heard wise people say the queen is not fiftyyears old, that she has no distemper but the gout, that that is along-life disease, which generally holds people out twenty, or thirty,or forty years; and let it go how it will, the queen may well enoughlinger out twenty or thirty years, and not be a huge old wife neither.Now, what say the people, must we think of living twenty or thirtyyears in this wrangling condition we are now in? This would be atorment worse than some of the Egyptian plagues, and would beintolerable to bear, though for fewer years than that. The animositiesof this nation, should they go on, as it seems they go on now, wouldby time become to such a height, that all charity, society, and mutualagreement among us, will be destroyed. Christians shall we be called!No; nothing of the people called Christians will be to be found amongus. Nothing of Christianity, or the substance of Christianity, viz.,charity, will be found among us! The name Christian may be assumed,but it will be all hypocrisy and delusion; the being of Christianitymust be lost in the fog, and smoke, and stink, and noise, and rage,and cruelty, of our quarrel about a king. Is this rational? Is itagreeable to the true interest of the nation? What must become oftrade, of religion, of society, of relation, of families, of people?Why, hark ye, you folk that call yourselves rational, and talk ofhaving souls, is this a token of your having such things about you, orof thinking rationally; if you have, pray what is it likely willbecome of you all? Why, the strife is gotten into your kitchens, yourparlours, your shops, your counting-houses, nay, into your very beds.You gentlefolks, if you please to listen to your cookmaids and footmenin your kitchens, you shall hear them scolding, and swearing, andscratching, and fighting among themselves; and when you think thenoise is about the beef and the pudding, the dishwater, or thekitchen-stuff, alas, you are mistaken; the feud is about the moremighty affairs of the government, and who is for the protestantsuccession, and who for the pretender. Here the poor despicablescullions learn to cry, High Church, No Dutch Kings, No Hanover, thatthey may do it dexterously when they come into the next mob. Heretheir antagonists of the dripping-pan practise the other side clamour,No French Peace, No Pretender, No Popery. The thing is the very sameup one pair of stairs: in the shops and warehouses the apprenticesstand some on one side of the shop, and some on the other, (havingtrade little enough), and there they throw high church and low churchat one another's heads like battledore and shuttlecock; instead ofposting their books, they are fighting and railing at the pretenderand the house of Hanover; it were better for us certainly that thesethings had never been heard of. If we go from the shop one storyhigher into our family, the ladies, instead of their innocent sportsand diversions, they are all falling out one among another; thedaughters and the mother, the mothers and the daughters; the childrenand the servants; nay, the very little sisters one among another. Ifthe chambermaid is a slattern, and does not please, Hang her, she is ajade; or, I warrant she is a highflier; or, on the other side, Iwarrant she is a whig; I never knew one of that sort good for anythingin my life. Nay, go to your very bed-chambers, and even in bed the manand wife shall quarrel about it. People! people! what will become ofyou at this rate? If ye cannot set man and wife together, nor yoursons and daughters together, nay, nor your servants together, how willye set your horses together, think ye? And how shall they standtogether twenty or thirty years, think ye, if the queen should live solong? Before that time comes, if you are not reduced to your wits, youwill be stark mad; so that unless you can find in your hearts to agreeabout this matter beforehand, the condition you are in, and by thattime will in all likelihood be in, will ruin us all; and this is onesufficient reason why we should say nothing, and do nothing about thesuccession, but just let it rest where it is, and endeavour to bequiet; for it is impossible to live thus. Further, if Hanover shouldcome while we are in such a condition, we shall ruin him, or he us,that is most certain. It remains to inquire what will be the issue ofthings.

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