Excerpt from A Political Dissertation Upon Bull-Baiting and Evening Lectures: With Occasional Meditations on the 30th of January For thefe laudable 'and wife Ends were contrived their Leaping, and Throwing Matches, with many others of the like kind, and as thoie wife Com mon-wealths were more or leis employed in Forreign Wars, were thefe Sports en couraged, becaufe they found it hbfolutely neceifary for the Publick Quiet, that the People fhould be in fome Employ, which lhould engage their common Regard, and not let them have Paufe and Leafure c riough to pry into thofe Secrets of Govern ment, as might excite their Ambition to have a (hare therein. The Political Ma thine was therefore always kept going in thofe under Parts. And fuch Skill and Ability, did the Thirit. Of Glory, and a very commendable Emulation, raife fome Ferions to, in thefe Exercifes, as to give. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.