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The works of the Rev Dr Jonathan Swift Author:Jonathan Swift 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: THE PUBLIC SPIRIT O F T H E 1 W H. I G S. I Cannot, without fome envy, and d juft refent- ment againft the oppofite cohdufl of others, reflect upon tha... more »t genorofity and tehdernefs, wherewith the heads, and principal members of ftrug- gling faction, treat thofe who will undertake to hold a pen in their defence. And the behaviour of thefe patrons is yet the more laudable, be- caufe the benefits they confer are almoft gratis. If any of their labourers can fcratch out a pamphlet, they defire no more; there is no queftion offered about the wit, the ftyle, the argument. Let a pamphlet come out upon demand, in a proper juncture, you fhall be well and certainly paid ; you fhall be paid before-hand; every one of the party who is able to read, and can fpare a fhilling, fhall be a fubfcriber ; feveral thoufands of each production, fhall be fent among their friends through the kingdom ; the work (hall be reported admirable, fublime, unanfwerable; fhall ferve to raife the finking clamours, and confirm the fcan- U 2 dal, dal, of introducing popery and the pretender, upon the Queen and her mihifters. Among the prefent writers on that fide, I can recollect but three of any great diftinction; which are, the Flying-poft, Mr. Dunton, and the author of the Crifis . The firft of thefe, feems to have been much funk in reputation, fince the fudden retreat of the only true, geniune, original author, Mr. Ridpath, who is celebrated by the Dutch Gazetteer, as one of the beft pens in England. Mr. Dunton has been longer, and more converfant in books, than any of the three, as well as more voluminous in his productions : however, having employed his ftudies in fo great a variety of other fubjects, he has, I think, but lately turned his genius to politicks. His famous tract, intituled Neck or ...« less