The Union: Cease Your Funning, Or the Rebel Detected (Classic Reprint)

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I love wit as mtich as any man, ' but a jokc', may certainly fometimes be carried too fan - I have never-fub111itted to the jufiice of Lord Shafterbury's fanciful pofition, that ridfcule is tcfloftmtlz; and iowni think its application is peculiarly Ofl'enfive Wheti political fubjeéts of the deepefi and moft ferions importance, and treated, with idle levity and bufi'oon irony.-thefe fen timents have been principally excited bv reading, a pamphlet entitled arguments for and A dae AN union oonsidered.-the Author Of this work has evidently w11tten after the 1110 de] of fome of Swift' 3 lighter compofitions; a Iiyle which in my apprehenfion has never till now been fuc'ce'fsfully imitated, tho' attempted with fome talent by the fuppofed annotators of. The late Aldermafi George Faulkner, and in fome' few other infiances.

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