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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... discovering the falfhood and abfurdity of them . It is a great unhappiness , when in a government conftituted like ours it should be fo brought about , that the continuance of a war muft be for the interest of vaft numbers ( civil , as ...
... discovering the falfhood and abfurdity of them . It is a great unhappiness , when in a government conftituted like ours it should be fo brought about , that the continuance of a war muft be for the interest of vaft numbers ( civil , as ...
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... discover those deluded or deluding perfons , who hope pretend , it is only a fhort madness in the vulgar , from which they may foon re- cover ; whereas , I believe , it will appear to be very different in its causes , its fymp- toms ...
... discover those deluded or deluding perfons , who hope pretend , it is only a fhort madness in the vulgar , from which they may foon re- cover ; whereas , I believe , it will appear to be very different in its causes , its fymp- toms ...
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... discover one , from whom to draw a parallel without doing injury to a roman memory : fo that I am com- pelled to have recourfe to Tully . But this author , relating facts only as an orator , I thought it would be beft to obferve his ...
... discover one , from whom to draw a parallel without doing injury to a roman memory : fo that I am com- pelled to have recourfe to Tully . But this author , relating facts only as an orator , I thought it would be beft to obferve his ...
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... laft week by fome of the former for promifing to discover the cor- ruptions of the late administration , but never performing any thing . The latter , on on the other fide , are thundering out their anathemas 72 N ° 19 . THE EXAMINER .
... laft week by fome of the former for promifing to discover the cor- ruptions of the late administration , but never performing any thing . The latter , on on the other fide , are thundering out their anathemas 72 N ° 19 . THE EXAMINER .
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... discovering fo many . I am at a lofs how to decide between these contraries , and fhall therefore pro- ceed after my own way , as I have hitherto done ; my defign being of more import- ance , than that of writing only to gratify the ...
... discovering fo many . I am at a lofs how to decide between these contraries , and fhall therefore pro- ceed after my own way , as I have hitherto done ; my defign being of more import- ance , than that of writing only to gratify the ...
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