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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK II
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This was visibly set on by the Papists: And it was wisely done of them, for they knew how much the _Non-conformists were set against them_ .-- _Swift_.

Not so much as they are against the Church.
P.531._Burnet_ Lord Hyde was the person that disposed the Duke to it: Upon that Lord Halifax and he fell to be in ill terms; for he hated Lord Sunderland beyond expression, though he had married his sister .-- _Swift_.

Who married whose sister?
P.536._Burnet_ The truth is, juries became at that time the shame of the nation, as well as a reproach to religion: For they were packed, and prepared to bring in verdicts as they were directed and not as matters appeared on the evidence .-- _Swift_.

So they are now.
P.538._Burnet_ He [Algernon Sidney] was ambassador in Denmark at the time of the Restoration .-- _Swift_.

For Cromwell.
P.543._Burnet_, on Rumbold's proposal to shoot the King at Hodsdon, in his way to Newmarket, adds:--They [the conspirators] ran into much _wicked talk_ about the way of executing that.


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