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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK VII
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[T.S.]] P.614._Burnet_ says of the Earl of Godolphin:--After having been thirty years in the Treasury, and during nine of those Lord Treasurer, as he was never once suspected of corruption, or of suffering his servants to grow rich under him, so in all that time his estate was not increased by him to the value of L4,000.

_Swift_.

A great lie.
THE CONCLUSION.
P.669._Burnet_, speaking of the progress of his own life, says:--The pleasures of sense I did soon nauseate .-- _Swift_.

Not so soon with the wine of some elections.
THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY THOMAS BURNET, ESQ.
Opposite to the title-page:--_Swift_.

A rude violent party jackanapes.
In the Life, p.


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