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THE
SWEARERS BANK:
OR
PARLIAMENTARY SECURITY FOR ESTABLISHING A NEW BANK IN IRELAND.
WHEREIN THE MEDICAL USE OF OATHS IS CONSIDERED[1].
WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1720.
Si Populus vult decipi, decipiatur.
"TO believe every thing that is said by a certain set of men, and to doubt of nothing they relate, though ever so improbable," is a maxim that has contributed as much, for the time, to the support of Irish banks, as it ever did to the popish religion; and they are not only beholden to the latter for their foundation, but they have the happiness to have the same patron saint; for, ignorance, the reputed mother of the devotion of one, seems to bear the same affectionate relation to the credit of the other.
To subscribe to banks, without knowing the scheme
- ↑ See an Essay upon English Bubbles in the eighteenth volume of this edition.
