The Hibernian Patriot Author:Jonathan Swift Subtitle: A Collection of the Drapier's Letters to the People of Ireland Concerning [w.] Wood's Brass Half-Pence, Together With Considerations on the Attempts Made to Pass That Coin, and Reasons for the People, of Ireland's Refusing It. to Which Are Added, Poems and Songs Relating to the Same Subject. Repr General Books publication date: 2009 ... more »Original publication date: 1730 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SOME REASONS Shewing the Neceflity the People of Ireland are under for continuing to refufe Mr. W o o D's Coinage. By the Author of the Considerations. Ifthuc ejl Sapere, non quod ante pedes modo eft Videre, fed etiam ilia, quts futura futit, Profpicere. Teren. Nttlle funt eccultiorts infidics, quam ques latent in Jimit- latione Officii, cut in aliquo neceffitudinh nomine nam turn qui palam eft adverfarius, facile cavendo vitare paffis: hoc vero occultum intejlinum ac domejlicum malum, tun modo exi/lit, verum etiam opprimit, antequam pro- fpicere atque expkrare potueris. To the Right Honourable Allan, Lord Vilcount Middleton, Lord High-Chancellor of IRE- LAND. My LORD, T has been conflantly obferved of your Lordjhip, that you have found out the Secret, of making the Patriot and Minister agree in the fame Per/on; for, as you have ever been Remarkable for your Adherence to the Intereji of the Crown, fo you have always confulted the Good of the Common Wealth. It is for this Reafon, that I prefume to put the following Sheets under your Protection ; that my Readers, by feeing your Lcrdjhip's Name at the Head of them, may be, at thefirft View, ajfitred, they are writ with a jujl Regard to the Prerogative of the King, and the Intereji of this Country. lam with the moft profound ReJ'pef...« less