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To begin, then, with that most popular and affrighting argument now made use of, as the bugbear of the people, against several other things besides jacobitism, we mean French greatness.

From And What if the Pretender should Come? Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great Britain by Defoe, Daniel

Since that time Sir Everard's jacobitism had been gradually decaying, like a fire which burns out for want of fuel.

From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Scott, Walter, Sir