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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK VII
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BOOK VII.
P.525 (second volume).

_Burnet_, speaking of the Act for the General Naturalization of Protestants, and the opposition made against it by the High Church, adds:--This was carried in the House of Commons, with a great majority; but all those, who appeared for this large and comprehensive way, were reproached for their coldness and indifference in the concerns of the Church: And in that I had a large share .-- _Swift_.

Dog.
P.526._Burnet_.

The faction here in England found out proper instruments, to set the same humour on foot [in Ireland], during the Earl of Rochester's government, and, as was said, by his directions:...
So the clergy were making the same bold claim there, that had raised such disputes among us .-- _Swift_.

Dog, dog, dog.
P.580._Burnet_, speaking of the interruption in the negotiations for a peace consequent on the Earl of Jersey's death, adds:--_One Prior_, who had been Jersey's secretary, upon his death, was employed to prosecute that, which the other did not live to finish.


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