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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... head , and thence delivered to be nurfed and dandled by the rabble . Sometimes it is produced a monfter , and licked into fhape : at other times it comes into the world completely formed , and is fpoiled in the licking . It is often ...
... head , and thence delivered to be nurfed and dandled by the rabble . Sometimes it is produced a monfter , and licked into fhape : at other times it comes into the world completely formed , and is fpoiled in the licking . It is often ...
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... heads of fome people , like flies about a horse's ears in fummer ; or those legions hovering every afternoon in Exchange - alley , enough to darken the air ; or over a club of dif- contented grandees , and thence fent down in cargoes to ...
... heads of fome people , like flies about a horse's ears in fummer ; or those legions hovering every afternoon in Exchange - alley , enough to darken the air ; or over a club of dif- contented grandees , and thence fent down in cargoes to ...
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... head in Eng- land for the management of nice affairs . The fuperiority of his genius confifts in nothing else , but an inexhauftible fund of political lyes , which he plentifully distri- butes every minute he speaks , and by an ...
... head in Eng- land for the management of nice affairs . The fuperiority of his genius confifts in nothing else , but an inexhauftible fund of political lyes , which he plentifully distri- butes every minute he speaks , and by an ...
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... head of the confederate forces ; only at the fame time , in cafe he were resolved to refign , they chose rather to turn their thoughts fomewhere else than throw up all in defpair . And this I cannot but add , in defence of the people ...
... head of the confederate forces ; only at the fame time , in cafe he were resolved to refign , they chose rather to turn their thoughts fomewhere else than throw up all in defpair . And this I cannot but add , in defence of the people ...
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... head and ears in debt , al- though I were fure my tenants paid their rents very well , and that I never spent half my income ; they would certainly advise me to turn off Mr. Oldfox * my receiver , and take another . If , as a juftice of ...
... head and ears in debt , al- though I were fure my tenants paid their rents very well , and that I never spent half my income ; they would certainly advise me to turn off Mr. Oldfox * my receiver , and take another . If , as a juftice of ...
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