Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D. D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 14 of 24
Therefore, to bring the words of my text to our pre sent occasion, I shall endeavour, in a farther prosecution of them, to evince the great necessity of a nice and cu rious inspection into the several recesses of the heart, being the surest and the shortest method that a wicked man can take to reform himself; for let us but st0p the fountain, and the streams will spend and waste. Them. Selves away in a very little time; but if we go abbat, like children, to raise a bank, and to stop the current.
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