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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... last above two or three campaigns ; and that it was easier for the fubjects to raise a fund for paying intereft , than to tax them annually to the full expence of the war . Several perfons , who had fmall or incumbered eftates , fold ...
... last above two or three campaigns ; and that it was easier for the fubjects to raise a fund for paying intereft , than to tax them annually to the full expence of the war . Several perfons , who had fmall or incumbered eftates , fold ...
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... last grown neceffary , and what every good fubject muft now fall in with , although he may be allowed to wish it might foon have an end ; because it is with a kingdom as with a private fortune , where every new incumbrance adds a double ...
... last grown neceffary , and what every good fubject muft now fall in with , although he may be allowed to wish it might foon have an end ; because it is with a kingdom as with a private fortune , where every new incumbrance adds a double ...
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... last paper , by an Effay upon the art of Political Lying . We are told the devil is the father of lyes , and was a lyar from the beginning ; so that beyond contradiction the invention is old : and , which is more , his first Essay of it ...
... last paper , by an Effay upon the art of Political Lying . We are told the devil is the father of lyes , and was a lyar from the beginning ; so that beyond contradiction the invention is old : and , which is more , his first Essay of it ...
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... last relief of a routed , earth - born , rebellious party in a ftate . But here the moderns have made great additions , applying this art to the the gaining of power and preserving it , as well N ° 14 . 13 THE EXAMINER .
... last relief of a routed , earth - born , rebellious party in a ftate . But here the moderns have made great additions , applying this art to the the gaining of power and preserving it , as well N ° 14 . 13 THE EXAMINER .
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... last pre- vail . Here hath this ifland of ours , for the greatest part of twenty years , lain under the influence of fuch counfels and perfons , whofe principle and intereft it was to cor- rupt our manners , blind our understand- ing ...
... last pre- vail . Here hath this ifland of ours , for the greatest part of twenty years , lain under the influence of fuch counfels and perfons , whofe principle and intereft it was to cor- rupt our manners , blind our understand- ing ...
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