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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK II
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[In this famous campaign of Louis XIV.

against the Dutch, (1672,)] there was so little heart or judgement shewn in the management of that run of success, etc .-- _Swift_.

A metaphor, but from gamesters.
P.326._Burnet_, referring to the action of the rabble when Cornelius de Witt was banished, says of the Prince of Orange:--His enemies have taken advantages from thence to cast the infamy of this on him, and on his party, to make them all odious; though the Prince spoke of it always to me with the greatest horror possible .-- _Swift_.

Yet he was guilty enough.
P.328._Burnet_.

Prince Waldeck was their chief general: A man of a great compass .-- _Swift, i.e._ very fat.
P.330._Burnet_.


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