The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, 1784 |
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... Answer . This is what he has exactly done , in about thrice as many words as my whole * difcourfe ; which is fo mighty an adyan- tage over me , that I fhall by no means engage in fo unequal a combat ; but , as far as I can judge of my ...
... Answer . This is what he has exactly done , in about thrice as many words as my whole * difcourfe ; which is fo mighty an adyan- tage over me , that I fhall by no means engage in fo unequal a combat ; but , as far as I can judge of my ...
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... answer for it . P. S. When this paper was going to the press , the printer brought me two more Obfervators , wholly taken up in my Examiner upon lying , which I was at the pains to read ; and they are just such an answer , as the two ...
... answer for it . P. S. When this paper was going to the press , the printer brought me two more Obfervators , wholly taken up in my Examiner upon lying , which I was at the pains to read ; and they are just such an answer , as the two ...
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... answer ; and are forced at last freely to confefs , that the corruptions and abuses in every branch of the ad * This mode of finishing a sentence with a prepofition , which has prevailed in almost all our writings , is very ...
... answer ; and are forced at last freely to confefs , that the corruptions and abuses in every branch of the ad * This mode of finishing a sentence with a prepofition , which has prevailed in almost all our writings , is very ...
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... answers . I heard myfelf cenfured laft week , by fome of the former , for promifing to dif- cover the corruptions of the late adminiftation , but never performing any thing . The latter , on the other fide , are thundering out their ...
... answers . I heard myfelf cenfured laft week , by fome of the former , for promifing to dif- cover the corruptions of the late adminiftation , but never performing any thing . The latter , on the other fide , are thundering out their ...
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... answer is written in the true style , and with the ufual candour , of fuch pieces ; which I have imitated to the best of my skill , and doubt not but the reader will be extremely fatisfied with it . putation and credit are what people ...
... answer is written in the true style , and with the ufual candour , of fuch pieces ; which I have imitated to the best of my skill , and doubt not but the reader will be extremely fatisfied with it . putation and credit are what people ...
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