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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: In this month likewise an ambassador will die in London; but I
cannot assign the day.
August. The affairs of France will seem to suffer no change for a
while under the Duke of Burgundy's administration; but the genius
that animated the whole machine being gone, will be the cause of
mighty turns and revolutions in the following year. The new King
makes yet little change either in the army or the ministry; but
the libels against his grandfather, that fly about his very
court, give him uneasiness.
I see an express in mighty haste, with joy and wonder in his
looks, arriving by break of day on the 26th of this month, having
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