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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK II
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I saved myself out of those difficulties by saying to all my friends, that I would not be involved in any such confidence; for as long as I thought our circumstances were such that resistance was not lawful, I thought the concealing any design in order to it was likewise unlawful .-- _Swift._ Jesuitical.
_Ibid.

Burnet_ says, after relating how the thumb-screws were applied to Spence and Carstairs:--Upon what was thus screwed out of these two persons, etc .-- _Swift_.

Witty the second time.
P.586._Burnet_, Baillie suffered several hardships and fines for being supposed to be in the Rye-house Plot; yet:--seemed all the while so composed, and even so cheerful, that his behaviour looked like the reviving of the spirit of the noblest of the old Greeks or Romans .-- _Swift_.

For he was our _cousin_.
P.587._Burnet_, speaking of Baillie's execution, says:--The only excuse that was ever pretended for this infamous prosecution was, that they were sure he was guilty .-- _Swift_.

Bishop of Rochester.
P.588._Burnet_, Lord Perth wanting to see Leightoun, I writ so earnestly to him, that he came to London; and, on--his coming to me, I was amazed to see him at above seventy look so fresh and well....


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