Excerpt from The Thoughts of a Tory Author, Concerning the Press: With the Opinion of the Ancients and Moderns, About Freedom of Speech and Writing and an Historical Account of the Usage It Has Met With From Both Parties in England Now when Authors fay n'orhing but what 1 True, what is agreeable to their Duty to the Church and the Q n, 'what do's no Injury to the Reputation of any {trikes at a Publick Grievance, a Reigning Vice, or Prevailing Polly, and ibew thatttheir whole 'aim is to ferve the Commonwealth; Why we fhou'd make the Studies of -fuch'meh ufelefs, I can't imagine And= We who are' already Out-printed by all'the Politer Nations of Eu rope, fho'u'd be reducid-to a State of envying the Swift, or even the Mufcow'teru g -r Befides, What is it we propofe'by our-re; firaint, but to put'a {lop to themifchiefs.that arife'by the Difficulties'. 'o'f Proofagainft Prin ter: and Bookfiller}, who being oblig'd' to an fwer for whatever Fa'ults their Authors com mit, which this Law may enforce, will take efi'ee'tualcaretobring them out, if there is a Claufe to indemnify them on fo doing. 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.