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new arts unknown to the older, xiii. 244. The parliament of Ireland imitates that of England in every thing, as a monkey does a human creature, 195. The ministry are as easy and merry as if they had nothing on their heads or their shoulders; like physicians, who endeavour to cure, but feel no grief, whatever the patient suffers, xiv. 322. The Irish ladies, who make a fine appearance on a birthday at the castle, with nothing Irish about them but their souls and bodies, are like a city on fire, which shines by that which destroys it, xviii. 307. See Bon Mots and Thoughts on Various Subjects.
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Tacking (a practice of uniting a money bill to one of a different nature, which cannot be otherwise gotten through both houses). A favourite expedient among the tories, iv. 155. Remarks on that practice, 157.
Tailors. A sort of idols, who create men by a kind of manufactory operation, ii. 88.
Talbot (Charles). See Shrewsbury.
Tale of a Tub[1], ii. 1. Historical particulars concerning it, 3. A parson cousin of the dean's affected to be thought the author of it, ii. 5. xi. 78. Some remarks on it, xix. 204.
Taste. The degeneracy of it in a great measure owing to the prejudice of parties, iii. 50.
Tatlers (by Dr. Swift), v. 157-199. xviii. 197-206. Some pointed out, which he has disclaimed, xviii. 211. Steele's reason for dropping the paper, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 18/The Present State of Wit#sviii-035-2xviii. 35. Its character, 36; and happy effects, 37. After Steele had given it up, several new ones came out, all the authors of which pretended to be the genuine Isaac Bickerstaff, 39. New one set up by Harrison, xiv. 325.
Taxes. A remark of a commissioner of the customs concerning them, ix. 214. 347. The annual amount of those upon the land and malt, iii. 394. The consequence of mortgaging either of them, 399. Those on luxury, which are universally allowed to be the most equitable and beneficial, have a contrary effect in Ireland, ix. 397. The tax laid on daily and weekly papers produced an effect quite contrary to what it was intended to promote, iv. 159.
Temple (sir William). Ode to him, vii. 3. Preface to the third Part of his Memoirs, xvi. 344. Dedication to his Letters, 350.
- ↑ The Tale of a Tub is a sort of Hudibras in prose, but quite an original; and has all the merit of Rabelais, without any of his weaknesses. There is throughout the whole a mighty fund of good sense, a strong glow of true wit and masculine satire, accompanied with a kind of humour so singularly pleasant, that no cynick can avoid smiling who reads it. London Magazine.
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