A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
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{78b} Strained glosses and interpretations of the simple text. {79a} Images in churches. {79b} The locking up of the Gospel in the original Greek or in the Latin of the Vulgate, and forbidding its diffusion in the language of the people. {80a} The Pope's bulls and decretals, issued by his paternal authority, that must determine questions of interpretation and tradition, or else many absurd things would follow. {80b} Constantine the Great, from whom the Church of Rome was said to have received the donation of St. Peter's patrimony, and first derived the wealth described by our old Reformers as "the fatal gift of Constantine." {84a} See Wotton "Of Ancient and Modern Learning."--S. {84b} Satire and panegyric upon critics.--S. {85} Vide excerpta ex eo apud Photium--S. {86} "Near Helicon and round the learned hill Grow trees whose blossoms with their odour kill."--Hawkesworth. {88} A quotation after the manner of a great author. Vide Bentley's "Dissertation," &c.--S. |
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