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[I]t is a pretty shocking observation that the Queen is to be the…
Quote byHenry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke · 1678–1751
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Lord Orrery (6 April 1711), quoted in 'The Letters of Henry St. John to the Earl of Orrery, 1709–1711', ed. H. T. Dickinson, Camden Miscellany, Vol. XXVI (1975), p. 164.
English (original)
[I]t is a pretty shocking observation that the Queen is to be the guarantee for a loan of this extraordinary nature made by the Dutch, and especially at a time, when under pretence of disability they directly refuse to furnish their quotas for the sea service, in spight of the obligations of all sorts, which lye upon them to do otherwise.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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