Excerpt from A Short Defence of the Whigs: Against the Imputations Attempted to Be Cast Upon Them During the Late Election for Westminster The truth and justice of such imputations deserve most seriously to be examined; be cause, cast into the shade the character of the Revolution itself; and leave us withoutany standard for British freedom, but that which has been planted within a few years by hot, undisciplined Reformers, the majority of whom, though, most probably, honest and well intentioned, have, by their violences, repeatedly disappointed, and, in the end, rendered almost desperate, the great cause, which they will yet allow no others, who fall. Short of their own visionary theories, to support. 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.