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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... fome contempt , that I have observed persons wholly out of employ- ment affect to do otherwife . I doubted , whether any man could owe so much to the fide he was of , although he were re- tained by it ; but without fome great point of ...
... fome contempt , that I have observed persons wholly out of employ- ment affect to do otherwife . I doubted , whether any man could owe so much to the fide he was of , although he were re- tained by it ; but without fome great point of ...
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... 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 .
... 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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... fome dili- gent enquiries . I fhall therefore confider it only according to the modern fyftem , as it hath been cultivated these twenty years paft in the southern part of our own ifland . The poets tell us , that after the giants were ...
... fome dili- gent enquiries . I fhall therefore confider it only according to the modern fyftem , as it hath been cultivated these twenty years paft in the southern part of our own ifland . The poets tell us , that after the giants were ...
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... fome of the wifeft looked on as an ill omen ; and we faw it was with the utmost difficulty , that they could pre- ferve a majority , while the court and ` mi- nistry were on their fide , till they had learned those admirable expedients ...
... fome of the wifeft looked on as an ill omen ; and we faw it was with the utmost difficulty , that they could pre- ferve a majority , while the court and ` mi- nistry were on their fide , till they had learned those admirable expedients ...
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... fome years paft , there have been few things more wanted in England than fuch a paper , as this ought to be : and fuch as I will en- deavour to make it , as long as it shall be found of any ufe , without entering into the violences of ...
... fome years paft , there have been few things more wanted in England than fuch a paper , as this ought to be : and fuch as I will en- deavour to make it , as long as it shall be found of any ufe , without entering into the violences of ...
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