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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK VII
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Their [the last ministry's] friends have ever since made use of the most base methods to infuse those groundless discontents into the minds of the common people, etc .-- _Swift._ Hath experience shown those discontents groundless?
_Addison_.

If the removal of these persons from their posts has produced such popular commotions, the continuance of them might have produced something much more fatal to their king and country .-- _Swift_.

Very false reasoning.
_Addison_.

No man would make such a parallel, [between the treatment of the rebels, and that of the Catalans under King Philip,] unless his mind be so blinded with passion and prejudice, as to assert, in the language of this pamphlet, "That no instances can be produced of the least lenity under the present administration from the first hour it commenced to this day."-- _Swift_.

Nor to this, 1727.
_Addison_.


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