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A Letter From a Gentleman in Transilvania to his Friend in America - 11
12017-03-19T08:06:35-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2017-03-19T08:06:35-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aver have been brought into such difficulties. Had the Traitors been punish’d according to their Demerit, there never wou’d have been an Appeal to Vienna. How then can you place your chief confidence in a sect who have been the sole cause of your misfortunes? These invincible arguments stagger’d his Excellency; but being a Man of weak Intellects, and abandon’d (like * Sardana palus) to wine, musick and Women, was soon confirm’d in his former opinion, by his other Counsellors, who told him, that all the People in the Province were a set of Villains, but the Piss--Brute---tarians and themselves, and hop’d he wou’d govern himself accordingly. Thus the Council broke up. But I am afraid I have transgress’d the bounds of a single Letter, and have only tired your patience with some few hints about the Politicks of a Country, the name of which is scarcely known in America. You see by this how I improve my time in my Travels, and I hope to return to America equally accomplish’d with those of my Countrymen who have made this Tour before me. Adieu, dear Sir, at present! You need not expect to hear from me,
* The last King of the Assyrian Empire, who for his Extreme Effeminacy was so disdain’d by his own Captains, that they conspired against him. When he saw himself so straitned, that there was no escaping, he turned valiant, and making a funeral pile of all his precious Things (fiddles) he burnt himself in his Palace, and went out in a blaze.
See a full account of him in Justin.
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12016-08-19T13:00:59-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Letter From a Gentleman in Transilvania to his Friend in America - 111A letter from a gentleman in Transilvania to his friend in America : giving some account of the late disturbances that have happen'd in that government, with some remarks upon the political revolutions in the magistracy, and the debates that happened about the change. Humbly inscribed to Counsellor Quondam by his friend Isaac Bickerstaff, of the Middle Temple.2016-08-19T13:00:59-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
