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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK II
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Rogue.
P.384._Burnet_, the country party maintained that:--if a Parliament thought any law inconvenient for the good of the whole, they must be supposed still free to alter it: And no previous limitation could bind up their legislature .-- _Swift._ Wrong arguing.
P.387._Burnet_.

It was said, a standing Parliament changed the constitution of England .-- _Swift_.

The present case under King George.
_Ibid.Burnet_.It was moved, that an address should be made to the King for dissolving the Parliament .-- _Swift.

Tempora mutantur_; for nothing now will do but septennial Parliaments.
P.388 _Burnet_.

He [Lord Russell] had from his first education an inclination to favour the Non-conformists .-- _Swift_.


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