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...Profess, in the Sincerity of my Heart," Swift writes, "that I have ... no other motive than the publick Good of my Country, by advancing our Trade, providing...relieving the Poor, and giving some Pleasure to the Rich."13 After 1755 irony began to intone several new meanings, particularly in Germany, less so in...