A dialogue between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. in the isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on that memorable day, October 9th, 1753 / By a friend to the peace and prosperity of Ireland.

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1753
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Credit: A dialogue between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. in the isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on that memorable day, October 9th, 1753 / By a friend to the peace and prosperity of Ireland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 96] Charge, as the Athenians ufed to keep their true Pa- triots, inthe Areopagus on Penfion, when old and reduced in their Service. Prior. Why indeed, Mr. Dean Swirt. Indeed, Yom, I have not done, nor I won’t be interrupted. I fay what will become of a Nation, where we are charg’d fo immenfely for unbuilt or ill- built Barracks, for our Soldiers which we cannot ufe, which we did not want; and where we won’t lay out a neceflary Expence to build Houfes of Correction, that wou’d force every Idler to Labour, and tho” we ‘know that Idlenefs is the Seed of Rebellion ? What “will become of a Nation, where we {pend immenfely to ruin it, and grudge laying out a few Shillings, or the fmalleft Tax to ferve it, by encouraging our ‘People to Labour and be Induftrious > Where we are grown fo heedlefs and unthinking, that our political “Creed, muft be as often repeated in our Ears, as our ‘Religiousone, before we will take care to underftand, or fhew we believe it by our Pra¢tice ? Where we are fo motorioufly Dull, or fo artificially Infenfible, that we ‘mutt be told our true Intereft a thoufand Times over, before we'll regard it, or where thofe who know our true Intereft beft, will Sacrifice it either to theirVamtty, Eafe, Pleafure or Ambition, or at leaft to their giddy, fenfelefs, Carelefsnefs? What muft become of a Kingdom, where we are grown fo refign’d, that we no more offer to complain of the hardnefs of otr Cafe, if two or three honeft Gentlemen bid us’ hold our Tongue, than a dying Man againft the Will of Heaven? Where we either feem to have loft the Senfe
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