Before the conflict had lasted three months, she would have neither money nor credit left.
These things were obvious to every coffeehouse politician; and it was impossible to believe that they had escaped the notice of men so able and well informed as some who sate in the Privy Council and Parliament at Edinburgh.

In one way only could the conduct of these schemers be explained.

They meant to make a dupe and a tool of the Southron.

The two British kingdoms were so closely connected, physically and politically, that it was scarcely possible for one of them to be at peace with a power with which the other was at war.

If the Scotch drew King William into a quarrel, England must, from regard to her own dignity which was bound up with his, support him in it.