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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    [34] Inour Hufbandry they did Wonders alfo ; as toWheat and Barley’; as to Liming, Marling, and Sanding of Land ; as to planting of Hops, draining of Bogs 3 as to raifing Liquorifh, Saffron and Madder ; and as to fowing of Turneps, Clover, St. Foil, Trefoil, and all Kinds of Grafs Seeds, They improv’d’ by a well judged Emulation and proper Rewards, Numbers of our Hufbandry Utenfils: They fet the Nation at Work, in Planting amazing Quantities of Timber Trees, Willows and Ofiers for Hop Poles ; in raifing great. Numbers of Orchards, and improving our mak- ing of Cyder, home made Wines, and Metheglins ; as alfo in Brewing our Ale. and Beer, and giving us Vinegar from our own Fruits, equal to the beft in France. ‘They raifed the Manufactures: of our fineft Hats, to a furprifing Degree; and they did the fame by our Window Glafs. and made fo great a Progrefs inour Paper Bufinefs, and building of Mills for carrying it on, as if they had got the Mines of Peru, or the Induftry of China, to affift them in their Undertak- ings. Swirt. Well, dear Zom, I fuppofe you have done now. Ihave finifh’d a Sermon, on a better Subject — twice as foon, and yet tir’d my People, God hele them, before I had half done. 7 _ Prior. I fee you don’t relifh the Tranfports of my. Zeal on this Subject, which gives me -fuch high De- light; fo I fhall mention but curforily many Articles that remain, and fhall pafs by a Crowd in Silence, that. well deferv’d my dwelling on them :; What Lfhall begin. the remaining part of my Catalogue with, is their exerting
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