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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745

"A Tale of a Tub"


{148a} The Presbyterians objected to church-music, and had no
organs in their meeting-houses.
{148b} Opposed to the decoration of church walls.
{148c} Baptism by immersion.
{148d} Preaching.
{151a} "This wicked Proteus shall escape the chain."--Francis's
Horace.
{151b} Lib. de Aere, Locis, et Aquis.--S.
{152a} Charles II., by the Act of Uniformity, which drove two
thousand ministers of religion, including some of the most devout,
in one day out of the Church of England.
{152b} "Including Scaliger's," is Swift's note in the margin. The
sixth sense was the "common sense" which united and conveyed to the
mind as one whole the information brought in by the other five.
Common sense did not originally mean the kind of sense common among
the people generally. A person wanting in common sense was one
whose brain did not properly combine impressions brought into it by
the eye, the ear, &c.
{153} Reference here is to the exercise by James II. of a
dispensing power which illegally protected Roman Catholics, and
incidentally Dissenters also; to the consequent growth of feeling
against the Roman Catholics.


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