Excerpt from Famous Affinities of History, Vol. 4: The Romance of Devotion Jonathan Swift was of Yorkshire stock, though he happened to be born in Dublin, and thus is often spoken of as the great Irish satirist, or the Irish dean. It was, in truth, his fate to spend much of his life in Ire land, and to die there, near the cathedral where his remains now rest; but in truth he hated Ire land and everything connected with it, just as he hated Scotland and everything that was Scot tish. He was an Englishman to the core. 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.