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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK II
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And it was very reasonable.
P.519._Burnet_ mentions that, when the Test Act was passed:--about eighty of the most learned and pious of their clergy left all rather than comply with the terms of this law....

About twenty of them came up to England .-- _Swift_.

Enough to corrupt England.
P.523._Burnet_, describing the death of the Duke of Lauderdale, says--His heart seemed quite spent: There was not left above the bigness of a walnut of firm substance: The rest was spongy, liker the lungs than the heart .-- _Swift.

Anglice_, more like.
P.525._Burnet_, Home was convicted on the credit of one infamous evidence:--Applications were made to the Duke [of York] for saving his life: But he was not born under _a pardoning planet_ .-- _Swift_.

Silly fop.
P.526._Burnet_ All the Presbyterian party saw they were now disinherited of a main part of their birth-right .-- _Swift_.


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