The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... particular regards , and even his dying tender- neffes , are laid open . It has been humorously faid , that fone have fished the very jakes for papers left there by men of wit : but it is no jeft to affirm , that the cabinets of the ...
... particular regards , and even his dying tender- neffes , are laid open . It has been humorously faid , that fone have fished the very jakes for papers left there by men of wit : but it is no jeft to affirm , that the cabinets of the ...
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... particular cafes of the impeached Lords are parallelled in Athe- nian characters . Hawkef This whole treatife is full of hiftorical knowledge , and excel- lent reflections . It is not mixed with any improper fallies of wit , or any ...
... particular cafes of the impeached Lords are parallelled in Athe- nian characters . Hawkef This whole treatife is full of hiftorical knowledge , and excel- lent reflections . It is not mixed with any improper fallies of wit , or any ...
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... particular ftate , is of the fame nature with universal monarchy in feveral states adjoining to each other . So endless and exorbitant are the defires of men , whether confidered in their perfons or their states , that they will grafp ...
... particular ftate , is of the fame nature with universal monarchy in feveral states adjoining to each other . So endless and exorbitant are the defires of men , whether confidered in their perfons or their states , that they will grafp ...
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... particular perfons , and by way of ar ticles of impeachment . Whereas the commons in Rome , and fome other ftates , as will appear in a pro- per place , though they followed this method upon oc- cafion , yet generally purfued the ...
... particular perfons , and by way of ar ticles of impeachment . Whereas the commons in Rome , and fome other ftates , as will appear in a pro- per place , though they followed this method upon oc- cafion , yet generally purfued the ...
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... particular friend of Dr Swift . Orrery . + Earl of Orford . He had been confidered in a manner as Lord High Admiral , the whole affairs of the navy having been committed to his charge . Orrery . vitations vitations to return at the head ...
... particular friend of Dr Swift . Orrery . + Earl of Orford . He had been confidered in a manner as Lord High Admiral , the whole affairs of the navy having been committed to his charge . Orrery . vitations vitations to return at the head ...
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Page 403 - We are plagued here with an October Club ; that is, a set of above a hundred Parliamentmen of the country, who drink October beer at home, and meet every evening at a tavern near the Parliament, to consult affairs, and drive things on to extremes against the Whigs, to call the old ministry to account, and get off five or six heads.
Page 42 - For, although in their corrupt notions of divine worship, they are apt to multiply their gods; yet their earthly devotion is seldom paid to above one idol at a time of their own creation, whose oar they pull with less murmuring and much more skill, than when they share the lading, or even hold the helm.
Page 399 - ADVICE HUMBLY OFFERED TO -THE MEMBERS OF THE OCTOBER CLUB. In a Letter from a Person of Honour*.