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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: King of Sweden declares for the Emperor.
I cannot omit one particular accident here at home; that near the
end of this month much mischief will be done at Bartholomew Fair,
by the fall of a booth.
September. This month begins with a very surprizing fit of frosty
weather, which will last near twelve days.
The Pope having long languish'd last month, the swellings in his
legs breaking, and the flesh mortifying, will die on the 11th
instant; and in three weeks time, after a mighty contest, be
succeeded by a cardinal of the imperial faction, but native of
Tuscany, who is now about sixty-one years old.
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