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A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
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{89} "And how they're disappointed when they're pleased."--
Congreve, quoted by Pate.

{95} Refusing the cup of sacrament to the laity. Thomas Warton
observes on the following passage its close resemblance to the
speech of Panurge in Rabelais, and says that Swift formed himself
upon Rabelais.

{96} Transubstantiation.

{98a} The Reformation.

{98b} The cross (in hoc signo vinces). Pieces of the wood said to
be part of it were many in the churches.

{98c} One miracle to be believed was that the Chapel of Loretto
travelled from the Holy Land to Italy.

{99a} Made a true copy of the Bible in the language of the people.

{99b} Gave the cup to the laity.

{99c} Allowed marriages of priests.

{102a} Homerus omnes res humanas poematis complexus est.--Xenophon
in Conviv.--S.

{102b} A treatise written about fifty years ago by a Welsh
gentleman of Cambridge. His name, as I remember, Vaughan, as
appears by the answer to it by the learned Dr. Henry More. It is a
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