Argumentum ad hominem: being an extract from a piece intitled, England's present interest considered, with honour to the prince, and safety to the... [sic] (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"AT a time when the rights of men are deeply and confessedly violated, it certainly behoves every member of the community to stand forth, and as there may be, and no doubt are many sober and conscientious people, who at heart are real friends to their country and wish well to its cause, yet through a modest deference toward those in authority, or for fear of acting inconsistent with their religious profession, are, amidst a variety of sentiments, somewhat at a loss what step to take in these times of public difficulty: The following extract from the select works of William Penn, as lately re-printed in London by order of the people called Quakers, it is thought may be a means of removing from their minds those scruples which may have suspended their judgments, and held them in uncertainty; as we may hereby see, that a declaration and publick vindication of the people's natural and legal right to liberty and property inviolate, was not inconsistent with the judgment, or contrary to the practice of this universally approved, wise, learned, prudent and pious man, who living much nearer a past aera of national difficulty than the present, and at a time when liberty to dissenters was not fully established, nevertheless was not restrained from asserting with manly and Christian boldness, what he was convinced to be the truth, uninfluenced by human..." This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.