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Bishops. Arguments against enlarging their Power in letting Leases, v. 267. How elected in the middle ages, xvi. 34. Those of Ossory and Killaloe empowered to solicit the affair of the first fruits, &c; in Ireland, xi. 82. Mr. Pulteney's remark on their political unity, xiii. 171. Wherein their office consists, ix. 244. Bill passed the Irish house of lords, empowering them to oblige the country clergy to build a house upon what part of the glebe they should command, 246. Another, relating to the division of parishes into as many parcels as the bishop should think fit, 247. Bishops sent from England, a great disadvantage and discouragement to the Irish, xii. 149. The worst solicitors in the world, except in their own concerns, and why, xi. 95. Two of them in Ireland received money for their labour in negotiating the remittal of the first fruits, who did nothing; while Swift, who effected it, could not receive thanks, 450.
Bishops (and other ecclesiastical corporations). Prohibited from setting their land for a term above twenty-one years, v. 270.
Bite. A new fashioned way of being witty, and the constant amusement at court, and among great people, xi. 12.
Blackmore (sir Richard). His definition of avarice, xvii. 339. A proficient in the low sublime, viii. 177. Verses to be placed under his picture, xvii. 465.
Blacksmiths. Their petition to the lord mayor and aldermen of London against certain virtuosi, xvii. 297.
Blount (Mrs. Martha). Verses on her birthday, xvii, 425. Her constancy in friendship mentioned with honour by Mr. Pope, xiii. 406.
Blunt (sir John). His account of the funds from 1707 to 1710, iv. 115.
Bolingbroke. See St. John.
Bolton (archbishop of Cashell). His character, xiv. 242. When chancellor of St. Patrick's took every opportunity of opposing Swift, xi. 477, xii. 82; and when made a bishop left Swift embroiled for want of him, ibid. A maxim he learned from politicians, xiii. 179.
Books. Like men, have only one way of coming into the world, but many of going out of it, ii. 54. The same book may as well be christened with different names as other infants of quality, 84. Mr. Dryden gave his a multiplicity of godfathers, 85. The most accomplished way of using them in this age, 148. The turn they give to our thoughts and way of reasoning, v. 103. A wrong method and ill choice of them makes women the
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