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Show GOOD TO-DAY [today] AS EVER. Dean Swift, having preached an assize sermon in Ireland, was invited to dine with the judges, and having in his sermon considered the use and the abuse of the law, pressed somewhat hard upon the counselors who plead causes which they know in their consciences to be wrong. When dinner was over, and the glass began to go round, a young barrister retorted upon the dean, and, after several altercations, the counselor asked him, "If Satan were to die, might not a parson be found, who, for money, would preach his funeral sermon?" "Yes," said Swift, "I would gladly be the man, and would give Satan his due, as I have this day done to his children." |