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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... employments ; can fink a mountain to a mole - hill , and raise a mole - hill to a mountain ; hath prefided for many years at committees of elections ; can wafh a black - a - moor white ; make a faint of an atheist , and a patriot of a ...
... employments ; can fink a mountain to a mole - hill , and raise a mole - hill to a mountain ; hath prefided for many years at committees of elections ; can wafh a black - a - moor white ; make a faint of an atheist , and a patriot of a ...
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... employments , can be called Tories ? I doubt whoever would fuit the definition to the perfons , muft make it directly contrary to what we understood it at the time of the revolution . In order to remove these misapprehen- fions among us ...
... employments , can be called Tories ? I doubt whoever would fuit the definition to the perfons , muft make it directly contrary to what we understood it at the time of the revolution . In order to remove these misapprehen- fions among us ...
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... employments at five years value , reckoning only the known and avowed falaries , are very low rated at 100,000 l . Here is a good deal above half a million of money ; and , I dare fay , those who are loudeft with the clamour of ingra ...
... employments at five years value , reckoning only the known and avowed falaries , are very low rated at 100,000 l . Here is a good deal above half a million of money ; and , I dare fay , those who are loudeft with the clamour of ingra ...
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... Employ ments 100000 } 60000 10000 A ftatue A trophy A thousand copper me- dals , value half - pence a - piece A trium- phal arch A trium- phal car , 100 80 Ꮕ 2 1 8 } 500 valued as a 100 modern coach Cafual charges at 150 9 the triumph ...
... Employ ments 100000 } 60000 10000 A ftatue A trophy A thousand copper me- dals , value half - pence a - piece A trium- phal arch A trium- phal car , 100 80 Ꮕ 2 1 8 } 500 valued as a 100 modern coach Cafual charges at 150 9 the triumph ...
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... employments he hath borne , “ his treachery and irreligion , his injustice " and oppreffion ; he hath left of late fuch " monuments of his villainies in Sicily , " made fuch havock and confufion there , " during his government , that ...
... employments he hath borne , “ his treachery and irreligion , his injustice " and oppreffion ; he hath left of late fuch " monuments of his villainies in Sicily , " made fuch havock and confufion there , " during his government , that ...
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