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A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
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{72a} The tailor.

{72b} A sacred monkey.

{75} The Roman Catholics were considered by the Reformers to have
added to the simple doctrines of Christianity inventions of their
own, and to have laid especial stress on the adoption of them. Upon
Swift's saying of the three brothers, "Now the coats their father
had left them were, it is true, of very good cloth, and besides so
neatly sewn that you would swear they were all of a piece, but, at
the same time, very plain, with little or no ornament," W. Wotton
observes: "This is the distinguishing character of the Christian
religion. Christiana religio absoluta et simplex, was Ammianus
Marcellinus's description of it, who was himself a heathen." But
the learned Peter argues that if a doctrine cannot be found, totidem
verbis, in so many words, it may be found in so many syllables, or,
if that way fail, we shall make them out in a third way, of so many
letters.

{76} Quibusdam veteribus codicibus [some ancient MSS.].--S.

{77a} There are two kinds--oral tradition and the written record,--
reference to the value attached to tradition in the Roman Church.

{77b} The flame-coloured lining figures the doctrine of Purgatory;
and the codicil annexed, the Apocryphal books annexed to the Bible.
The dog-keeper is said to be an allusion to the Apocryphal book of
Tobit.

{78a} Dread hell and subdue their lusts.
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