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Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734)
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift, by Jonathan Swift and J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly, Edited by J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly
Title: Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift
Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734
Author: Jonathan Swift and J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly
Editor: J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly
Release Date: August 21, 2011 [eBook #37156]
Language: English
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IRELAND IN THE DAYS OF
DEAN SWIFT.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED,
ST. JOHN’S HOUSE, CLERKENWELL ROAD.
IRELAND IN THE DAYS OF
DEAN SWIFT.
(IRISH TRACTS, 1720 to 1734.)
BY
J. BOWLES DALY, LL.D.
AUTHOR OF “BROKEN IDEALS,” “RADICAL PIONEERS OF THE 18TH CENTURY,” ETC., ETC.
LONDON—CHAPMAN AND HALL,
LIMITED.
1887.
TO
The Right Hon. JOHN MORLEY, M.P.,
THE FIRST CHIEF SECRETARY OF IRELAND
WHOSE UNFLINCHING COURAGE AND OUTSPOKEN SYMPATHY
HAS SECURED HIM THE GRATITUDE OF THE IRISH PEOPLE,
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
WITH THE ADMIRATION OF
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| The Drapier’s Letters | 25 |
| The Address to the Jury | 131 |
| Swift’s Description of Quilca | 137 |
| Answer to a Paper | 142 |
| Maxims Controlled | 151 |
| A short View of the state of Ireland, 1727 | 162 |
| The Story of the Injured Lady | 174 |
| The Answer to the Injured Lady | 184 |
| A Letter to the Archbishop of Dublin, concerning the Weavers | 187 |
| Two Letters on Subjects relative to the Improvement of Ireland | 198 |
| The Present Miserable State of Ireland | 216 |
| “A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufactures.” 1720 | 227 |
| A Modest Proposal. 1729 | 240 |
| A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion Club, 1736 | 254 |
| On doing Good | 264 |
IRELAND IN THE DAYS OF DEAN SWIFT.
INTRODUCTION.
The shifting combinations of party, from the settlement of the constitution at the Revolution to a later period, is an attractive study to any who wish to find the origin of abuses which have long vexed the political life of England. Besides, it is wholesome and instructive to be carried away from the modern difficulty to the broader issues which have gradually led to the present complication.
William III. was a Whig, and his successor a Tory, but except for short periods no Tory party was able in either reign to carry on the government upon Tory principles. William made no complete change of ministry during his reign, only modifying its composition according to what appeared the prevailing sentiment of the parliament or the nation. It was composed of both parties; the Whigs predominated till the close of the reign, when their opponents acquired ascendency. Anne’s first ministry was Tory, but a change was soon wrought by a favourite of the court who happened to be a Whig and who soon turned the scale. Some knowledge of the character of the monarch is