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The works of the Reverend Dr J 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: E N Q U I R Into the Behaviour of the . QUEEN's LAST iMlNISTRY,' .-' , , ,) '.:i With Relation to their Quarrels among themfelves, and the De- fi... more »gn charged upon them of altering the Succeffion of the Crown. JuNE/MDCCXV. , SINCE the death of the Queen, it was rea- fonable enough for me to conclude, that I had done with all public affairs and (peculations: Be- fides, the fcene and flation I am in, have reduced my thoughts into a narrow compafs: And being wholely excluded from any view or favour under the; prefent adminiftration, upon, that invincible reafort of having been in fonve degree of truft and confidence with the former ;; I have not found the tran- fition very difficult'jnp, a private life, for which I am better qualified both by nature and education. The reading'and enquiring after- news, not being one of my d. iveifions, - having , always difliked a, mixed and general convcrlation, which however it fell to my lot, is now in my. power to avoid ; and being placed by the duties of my function at a great diftance from the feat of bufinefsj I api altogether C 5 '' fgnoraneignorant of many common events which happen In riie world:' Only, from the little I know and hear, itjfc manifeft, that the hearts of rrioft men are filled with doubts, fears, and jealoufics, or elfe with hatred and rage, to a degree that there feems to be an end of all amicable commerce between people of different parties ; and what the confequences of this maybe, let thofeconfider who have contributed to the cauffes; Ivfaicb, ,1 thank Grid, is no concern of mine. There are two points, with reference to the con- duft of the late Mim'ftry, nyuch infifted on, and little underftood by thofe who write or talk upon that fubject ; wherein I am fufficiently qualified to give fatisfadion ...« less