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AN ESSAY ON ENGLISH BUBBLES.

of Ireland: for what greater proof could this author give of his Christianity, than, for bringing about this Swearing-act, charitably to part with his coat, and sit starving in a very thin waistcoat in his garret[1], to do the corporal virtues of feeding and clothing the poor, and raising them from the cottage to the palace, by punishing the vices of the rich? What more could have been done even in the primitive times?



From my House in St. Faith's
Parish, London, Aug. 10,
1720.


P. S. For the benefit of the author, application may be made to me at the Tilt Yard Coffeehouse, Whitehall.

END OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME.


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