The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, 1784 |
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... state of things in fuch formidable ideas , that I find myself disposed to fhare in their afflictions ; al- though I know them to be groundless and ima- ginary , or , which is worfe , purely affected . To offer them comfort one by one ...
... state of things in fuch formidable ideas , that I find myself disposed to fhare in their afflictions ; al- though I know them to be groundless and ima- ginary , or , which is worfe , purely affected . To offer them comfort one by one ...
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... state , may be both in danger , under the best princes that ever reigned , and without the leaft guilt of theirs , is fuch a truth , as a man must be a great stranger to history and common fenfe , to doubt . The wifeft prince on earth ...
... state , may be both in danger , under the best princes that ever reigned , and without the leaft guilt of theirs , is fuch a truth , as a man must be a great stranger to history and common fenfe , to doubt . The wifeft prince on earth ...
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... state cannot defire leave to refign , but the pretender is at bottom ; the queen cannot dif- folve a parliament , but it is a plot to dethrone her- self and bring in the pretender ; half a score stock- jobbers are playing the knave in ...
... state cannot defire leave to refign , but the pretender is at bottom ; the queen cannot dif- folve a parliament , but it is a plot to dethrone her- self and bring in the pretender ; half a score stock- jobbers are playing the knave in ...
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... state , and hardly " recover itfelf at all , under many years , and by " a long fucceffion of good governors . While this " man governed in that ifland , the Sicilians had " neither the benefit of our laws , nor their own , " nor even ...
... state , and hardly " recover itfelf at all , under many years , and by " a long fucceffion of good governors . While this " man governed in that ifland , the Sicilians had " neither the benefit of our laws , nor their own , " nor even ...
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... state , nor any ill confequences to be appre- hended from their publication , it is no uncom- mendable work in any private hand , to lay them open for the fatisfaction of all men . And if . what 66 what I have already faid , or fhall ...
... state , nor any ill confequences to be appre- hended from their publication , it is no uncom- mendable work in any private hand , to lay them open for the fatisfaction of all men . And if . what 66 what I have already faid , or fhall ...
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