Excerpt from Later Stuart Tracts The conclusion of the whole was that 'tis personal virtue only makes us great.' 'i am one, ' says Defoe in the Preface, 'that would be glad to see Englishmen behave themselves better to strangers, and to governors also that one might not be reproached in foreign countries for belonging to a nation that wants manners.' The publica tion of the poem led to Defoe's introduction to William III., 'whose goodness to me, ' he says, 'i never forgot, neither can forget; whose memory I never patiently heard abused, nor ever can do so.' 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.