The details are slurred, and they are not literal.

Burke describes with excess of elaboration how the new system is a system of double cabinets; one put forward with nominal powers in Parliament, the other concealed behind the throne, and secretly dictating the policy.

The reader feels that this is worked out far too closely to be real.

It is a structure of artificial rhetoric.

But we lightly pass this over, on our way to more solid matter; to the exposition of the principles of a constitution, the right methods of statesmanship, and the defence of party.
[Footnote 1: This was not Burke's judgment on the long war against Louis XIV .-- See _Regicide Peace_, i.] It was Bolingbroke, and not Swift, of whom Burke was thinking, when he sat down to the composition of his tract.