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already collected, with great diligence and acutenefs, by Dr. Hawkefworth, according to a fcheme which I laid before him in the intimacy of our friendship. I cannot therefore be expected to fay much of a life, concerning which I had long fince communicated, my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying his narration with fo much elegance of language and force of fenti

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JONATHAN SWIFT was, ac→ cording to an account faid to be written by himself, the fon of Jonathan Swift, an attorney, and was born at Dublin on St.Andrew's day, 1667: according to his own report, as delivered by Pope to Spence, he was born at Leicefter, the son of a clergyman, who was minifter of a parifh in Herefordshire *. During his life the place of his birth was undetermined. He was contented to be called an Irishman by the Irish; but would occafionally call himself an Englishman. The question may, without much regret, be left in the obfcurity in which he delighted to involve it.

Spence's Anecdotes, vol. II. p. 273.

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