[80] Essay Towards Preventing the Ruin of Great Britain. [↑]
[81] Discourse to Magistrates. [↑]
[82] Guardian, Nos. 3, 55, 88. [↑]
[83] The Analyst, Queries, 55–67. [↑]
[84] See above, pp. 126–28. [↑]
[85] Discourse of Passive Obedience, § 26. [↑]
[86] Works, ed. 1837, p. 352. [↑]
[87] See the whole context, which palpitates with excitement. [↑]
[88] Mr. Walter Sichel (Bolingbroke and his Times, 1901, i, 175) thinks fit to dispose of her attitude as “her aversion to the Church and to everything that transcended her own faculties.” So far as the evidence goes, her faculties were much superior to those of most of her orthodox contemporaries. For her tone see her letters. [↑]