Laurence Target

“But though a Church of England man thinks every species of government equally lawful, he does not think them equally expedient; or for every country indifferently. There”
― Jonathan Swift, Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift

“We have no better materials to compound the priesthood of, than the mass of mankind, which corrupted as it is, those who receive orders must have some vices to leave behind them when they enter into the Church, and if a few do still adhere, it is no wonder, but rather a great one that they are no worse. Therefore”
― Jonathan Swift, Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift

“How little this is the state of our country, needs not to be told. The edicts of an English academy would, probably, be read by many, only that they may be sure to disobey them.”
― Samuel Johnson, Complete Works of Samuel Johnson

“And here, though it makes an odd sound, yet it is necessary to say, that whoever professes himself a member of the Church of England, ought to believe a God and his providence, together with revealed religion, and the divinity of Christ. For”
― Jonathan Swift, Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift