The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift
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ISBN13: 9780217606417
Paperback|9780217606417
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SEASONABLE ADVICE TO THE GRAND JURY, CONCERNING THE BILL PREPARING AGAINST THE PRINTER OF THE DRAPIER'S FOURTH LETTER. SINCE a bill is preparing for the grand jury, to find against the printer of the Drapier's last letter, there are several things maturely to be considered by those gentlemen, before whom this bill is to come, before they determine upon it. First, they are to consider, that the author of the said pamphlet, did write three other discourses on the same subject; which instead of being censured were universally approved by the whole nation, and were allowed to have raised, and continued that spirit among us, which hitherto hath kept out Wood's coin: For all men will allow, that if those pamphlets had not been writ, his coin must have overrun the nation some months ago. Secondly, it is to be considered that this pamphlet, against which a proclamation hath been issued, is writ by the same author; that nobody ever doubted the innocence, and goodness of his design, that he appears through the whole tenor of it, to be a loyal subject to His Majesty, and devoted to the House of Hanover, and declares himself in a manner peculiarly zealous against the Pretender; And if such a writer in four several treatises on so nice a subject, where a royal patent is concerned, and where it was necessary to speak of England and of liberty, should in one ortwo places happen to let fall an inadvertent expression, it would be hard to condemn him after all the good he hath done; Especially when we consider, that he could have no possible design in view, either of honour or profit, but purely the Good of his country. Thirdly, it ought to be well considered, whether any one expression in the said pamphlet, be really liable to just exception, much less to be found wicked, ma...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217606417 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217606415 |
| Weight | 0.66 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 198 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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