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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK II
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Bad casuist.
_Ibid.Burnet_.As soon as he [the Prince of Orange] was brought into the command of the armies, he told me, he spoke to De Witt, and desired to live in an entire confidence with him.

His answer was cold: So he saw that he could not depend upon him.

When he told me this, he added, that he was certainly one of the greatest men of the age, and he believed he served his country faithfully--_Swift_.

Yet the Prince contrived that he should be murdered.
_Ibid.Burnet_.Now I come to give an account of the fifth crisis brought on the whole reformation, which has been of the longest continuance, since we are yet in the agitations of it .-- _Swift_.

Under the Queen and Lord Oxford's ministry.
P.322._Burnet_.


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