The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 8C. Bathurst, C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer., 1754 |
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... ready to feed his vices and extravagancies , while there is any thing left . So that if the war continue fome years longer , a landed man will be little better B 3 than than a farmer of a rack - rent to the N ° 13 . 5 THE EXAMINER .
... ready to feed his vices and extravagancies , while there is any thing left . So that if the war continue fome years longer , a landed man will be little better B 3 than than a farmer of a rack - rent to the N ° 13 . 5 THE EXAMINER .
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... continuing , and growing more expenfive , taxes were increased , and funds multiplied every year , till they have arrived at the monftrous height we now behold them ; and that , which was at firft a corruption , is at last grown ...
... continuing , and growing more expenfive , taxes were increased , and funds multiplied every year , till they have arrived at the monftrous height we now behold them ; and that , which was at firft a corruption , is at last grown ...
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... what he would infallibly be hanged for if he com- mitted on the first of July ; by which the greatest criminals may escape , provided they they continue long enough in power to antiquate their crimes 56 Na 17 . THE EXAMINER .
... what he would infallibly be hanged for if he com- mitted on the first of July ; by which the greatest criminals may escape , provided they they continue long enough in power to antiquate their crimes 56 Na 17 . THE EXAMINER .
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Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth. they continue long enough in power to antiquate their crimes , and by ftifling them a while can deceive the legiflature into an amnesty , of which the enactors do not at that time foresee the confequence ...
Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth. they continue long enough in power to antiquate their crimes , and by ftifling them a while can deceive the legiflature into an amnesty , of which the enactors do not at that time foresee the confequence ...
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... continue my paper , till either the world or myself grow weary of it : the latter is eafily determined ; and for the former , I shall not leave it to the partiality of either party , but to the infallible judgment of my printer . One ...
... continue my paper , till either the world or myself grow weary of it : the latter is eafily determined ; and for the former , I shall not leave it to the partiality of either party , but to the infallible judgment of my printer . One ...
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