The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 509 pages of information about The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 509 pages of information about The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10.

P. v. [p. xxi.[2]] Clarendon.  We might give instances ... of those points ... which have brought the prince, sometimes, under the disadvantageous suspicion of being inclined to the love of arbitrary power.—­Swift.  What king doth not love, and endeavour at it?

[Footnote:  2 The references in square brackets apply to the recent Oxford edition of Clarendon’s “Rebellion” (6 vols., cr. 8vo, 1888).  The prefaces can only be referred to by the page, but throughout the body of the work the paragraphs are separately numbered for each book. [T.  S.]]

P, vi. [p. xxii.] Clarendon.  The people may not always be restrained from attempting by force to do themselves right, though they ought not.—­Swift.  They ought!

BOOK I.

P. 9. [par. 12.] Clarendon.  All men being inhibited, by the proclamation at the dissolution of the Parliament in the fourth year, so much as to mention or speak as if a Parliament should be called.—­Swift.  Great weakness.

P. 47. [par. 128.] Clarendon.  He [the Earl of Montgomery] had not sat many years in that sunshine, when a new comet appeared in court, Robert Carr, a Scotsman, quickly after declared favourite.—­Swift.  A Scottish king makes a Scottish favourite.

P. 48. [par. 133.] Clarendon.  The Earl of Carlisle ... wrought himself into ... greater affection and esteem with the whole English nation, than any other of that country; by choosing their friendships, and conversation, and really preferring it to any of his own—­Swift.  A miracle in a Scot!

P. 58. [par. 159.] Clarendon.  During the whole time that these pressures were exercised, and those new, and extraordinary ways were run, that is, from the dissolution of the Parliament in the fourth year, to the beginning of this Parliament, which was above twelve years, this kingdom ... enjoyed the greatest calm, and the fullest measure of felicity, that any people in any age, for so long time together, have been blessed with.—­Swift.  Partial.

P. 59. [par. 162.] Clarendon.  The kingdoms, we now lament, were alone looked upon as the garden of the world; Scotland (which was but the wilderness of that garden), etc.—­Swift.  The dunghill!

Ibid, [par. 163.] Clarendon.  Those rough courses, which made him [the King] perhaps less loved at home, made him more feared abroad; by how much the power of kingdoms is more reverenced than their justice by their neighbours:  and it may be this consideration might not be the least motive, and may not be the worst excuse for those counsels.—­Swift Too arbitrary.

P. 60. [par. 163.] Clarendon.  Nerva was deified for uniting, Imperium et Libertas.—­Swift.  “Libertas” underlined and “nego” written in the margin.

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