THE WORK S O F Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. PATRICK'S, Dublin. VOLUME VIII. LONDON, Printed for. T. OSBORNE, W. BOWYER, MDCCLXV. I THE E. XAMINER. NUMBER XIII. Thursday, November 2, 1710. longa eft injuria, longae Ambages; fed fumma fequar faftigia rerum. T is a practice I have generally followed, to converfe in equal freedom with the deferving men of both parties; and it was never without fome contempt, that I have obferved perfons, wholly out of employment, affect to do otherwife. I doubted, whether any man could owe fo much to the fide he was of, although he were retained by it; but without fome great point of intereft, either in poffeflion or profpect, I thought it was the mark of a low and narrow fpirit. It is hard, that for fome weeks paft I have been forced, in my own defence, to follow a proceeding that I have fo much condemned in others. But feveral of my acquaintance, among the declining party, are grown to infufferably peevith and fplenetick, profefs iuch violent apprehenfions for the publick, and reprefent the ftate of things in fuch formidable ideas, that I find myself disposed to thar in VOL. VIII. B their |