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The late revolutions at court have given room to fome fpecious objections, which I have heard re peated by well-meaning men, jufl as they had taken them up on the credit of others, who have worfe de figns. They wonder, the queen would chufe to change her miniftry at this juncture, and thereby give uneafinefs to a general, who hath been fo long fuccefsful abroad, and might think himfelf injured, if the entire miniflry were not of his own nomina tion that there Were few complaints of any confe quence againfl: the late men in power, and none at all in parliament, which on the contrary paiied votes in favour of the chief minifler; that, if her majef ty had a mind to introduce the other party, it would have been more feafonable after a peace, which now.
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Born in 1667, Jonathan Swift was an Irish writer and cleric, best known for his works Gulliver s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Journal to Stella, amongst many others. Educated at Trinity College in Dublin, Swift received his Doctor of Divinity in February 1702, and eventually became Dean of St. Patrick s Cathedral in Dublin. Publishing under the names of Lemeul Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, and M. B. Drapier, Swift was a prolific writer who, in addition to his prose works, composed poetry, essays, and political pamphlets for both the Whigs and the Tories, and is considered to be one of the foremost English-language satirists, mastering both the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. Swift died in 1745, leaving the bulk of his fortune to found St. Patrick s Hospital for Imbeciles, a hospital for the mentally ill, which continues to operate as a psychiatric hospital today.
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