Excerpt from The Works of Samuel Johnson When Temple removed to Moor park, he took Swift with him and when he was confulted by the Earl of Portland about the expedience of complying with a bill then depending for making parliaments triennial, againf't which King William was firongly prejudiced, after having in vain tried to thew the Earl that the propofal involved nothing dangerous to royal power, he fent Swift for the fame purpofe to the King. Swift, who probably was proud of his employment, and went with all the confidence of a young man, found his arguments, and his art of difplaying them, made totally inefi'ee'tual by the pre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.