Excerpt from The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 8 T 1s a practice I have generally followed, to converfe in equal freedom with the dcferving men of both parties and 1t was never without fome contempt, that I have obferved perfons wholly out of employ ment affect to do otherwife. I doubted, whether any man could owe fo much to the fide he was of, although he were re tained by it; but without fome great point of interef't, either in poffeflion or profpeét, I thought it was the mark of a low and narrow fpirit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.