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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    [4] they become thereby fuch fine Scare-crows, to our young unthinking Squanderers, when they {ee them all the while, ftanding as it were in a kind of Pillory. Nothing keeps the Dutch fo frugal as their Loads of high Taxes, for fome good Author, (and 1 think “tis your old Friend Sir William Temple) tells us, one cannot have a Dith of well dreffed Fifh at a Tavern in Holland, without paying near thirty-Gabels for it. We want fome Remedy for our “Extravagancies ‘of all Kinds greatly, but this is fo fhocking a one, that one wou’d hope the very fear of it might cure us, as fome Men have renoune’d their Intemperance, by their dread of the Gout and the Doétor, Without fome fuch helps, our fine Gentlemen feem not in- — clined to learn or confider, that we fhou’d fave im: menfe Sums toour Country, if we eat Corn of our own fowing, drunk home-made Wines of our own Brewing, fed on Fifh of our own catching, burn’d Coals of our own raifing, and wore no Cloaths that were not of our own manufatturing. « If they were once convinced of this, good Effe€ts wou’d follow; and we fhou’d foon acknowledge that it is barely owing to our own Extravagance, Thoughtlefnefs, Sleepi- nefs, Drunkennefs and Vanity, that we don’t, with one Voice, condemn and renounce fuch evident Errors, in our national Conduct, and fix on their Remedies. Swirt. This Jom, is merely dreaming of a pub- lick Cure for an epidemical Diftemper, as Curtis fays Ptolomy did, but we fhou’d not only get our Gentlemen, to think for the Nation and themfelves ; for we want fevere Laws to cure the Lazinefs and Indolence of our lower People. As Idlenefs is the ; reat
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