[The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. by Jonathan Swift]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. BOOK II 39/72
She had been maid of honour to Madame, the King's sister, and had come over with her to Dover; where the King had expressed such a regard to her, that the Duke of Buckingham, who hated the Duchess of Cleveland, intended to _put her on the King_ .-- _Swift._ Surely he means the contrary. P.341._Burnet_.
[The Duke of Lauderdale] called for me all on the sudden, and put me in mind of the project I had laid before him, of putting all the outed ministers by _couples_ into parishes: So that instead of wandering about the country to hold conventicles in all places, they might be fixed to a certain abode, and every one might have the half of a benefice .-- _Swift._ A sottish project; instead of feeding _fifty_, you starve a _hundred_. BOOK III. P.346._Burnet_.
It was believed, if the design had succeeded, he [Lord Clifford] had agreed with his wife to take orders, and to aspire to a cardinal's hat .-- _Swift_.
Was he or she to take orders? P.362._Burnet_.
I told him, what afterwards happened, that most of these would make their own terms, and leave him in the lurch .-- _Swift_. True sublime. P.370._Burnet_.
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