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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK II
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_Burnet,_ on Algernon Sidney's trial, observes, that:--Finch aggravated the matter of the book, as a proof of his intentions, pretending it was an overt act, for he said, _Scribere est agere_ .-- _Swift._ Yet this Finch was made Earl of Aylesford by King George.
Ibid.

_Burnet,_ when Sidney charged the sheriffs who brought him the execution-warrant with having packed the jury--one of the sheriffs ...
wept.

He told it to a person, from whom Tillotson had it, who told it me .-- _Swift._ Admirable authority.
P.577.

_Burnet._ So that it was plain, that after all the story they had made of the [Rye-house] Plot, it had gone no further, than that a company of seditious and inconsiderable persons were framing among themselves some treasonable schemes, that were never likely to come to anything .-- _Swift._ Cursed partiality.
P.579._Burnet_.

The King [Charles II.] had published a story all about the court, ...


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