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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK IV
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And by the Declaration that matter was still entire .-- _Swift_.

The more shame for King William, who changed it.
P.782._Burnet_, three days before the Prince of Orange embarked, he visited the States General, and:--took God to witness, he went to England with no other intentions, but those he had set out in his Declaration .-- _Swift_.

Then he was perjured; for he designed to get the crown, which he denied in the Declaration.
P.783._Burnet_, after describing the storm which put back the Prince of Orange's fleet, observes:--In France and England ...

they triumphed not a little, as if God had fought against us, and defeated the whole design.

We on our part, who found our selves delivered out of so great a storm and so vast a danger, looked on it as a mark of God's great care of us, Who, ...


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