[The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. by Jonathan Swift]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. BOOK I 4/11
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He loved high and rough methods, but had neither the skill to conduct them, nor the height of genius to manage them .-- _Swift._ Not one good quality named. P.31.
_Burnet._ The Queen [of Charles I.] was a woman of great vivacity in conversation, and loved all her life long to be _in intrigues of all sorts._--_Swift._ Not of love, I hope. Ibid.
_Burnet._ By the concessions that he made, especially that of the triennial Parliament, the honest and quiet part of the nation was satisfied, and thought their religion and liberties were secured: So they broke off from those violenter propositions that occasioned the war .-- _Swift._ Dark, or nonsense. Ibid.
_Burnet._ He intended not to stand to them any longer than he lay under that force that visibly drew them from him contrary to his own inclinations .-- _Swift._ Sad trash. P.33.
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