The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, 1784 |
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... honours , offices , nor grants been conferred on him or his family ? have not he and they been barbaroufly ftript of them all ? have not he and and his forces been ill paid abroad ? and does not the prince , by a scanty limited ...
... honours , offices , nor grants been conferred on him or his family ? have not he and they been barbaroufly ftript of them all ? have not he and and his forces been ill paid abroad ? and does not the prince , by a scanty limited ...
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... honour to the general , we will place to his account ; and lastly , fometimes , although not very frequently , a trium- phal arch . These are all the rewards , that I can call call to mind , which a victorious general received , 32 N ...
... honour to the general , we will place to his account ; and lastly , fometimes , although not very frequently , a trium- phal arch . These are all the rewards , that I can call call to mind , which a victorious general received , 32 N ...
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... honour of it , without intending any fuch dreaful confequences ; and in that cafe a wife prince , or state , may barely refuse it , without fhewing any marks of their difpleasure . But the requeft , in its own na- ture In ture , is ...
... honour of it , without intending any fuch dreaful confequences ; and in that cafe a wife prince , or state , may barely refuse it , without fhewing any marks of their difpleasure . But the requeft , in its own na- ture In ture , is ...
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... honour . The whole system , by which armies are governed , is quite alien from the peaceful inftitutions of ftates at home ; and if the rewards be fo inviting , as to tempt à fenator to take a poft in the army , while he is there on his ...
... honour . The whole system , by which armies are governed , is quite alien from the peaceful inftitutions of ftates at home ; and if the rewards be fo inviting , as to tempt à fenator to take a poft in the army , while he is there on his ...
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... honour of the army , as well as of the queen and ministry , that a remedy had been applied to the disease in the place and time where it grew . If men of fuch principles were able to propagate them in a camp , and were fure of a general ...
... honour of the army , as well as of the queen and ministry , that a remedy had been applied to the disease in the place and time where it grew . If men of fuch principles were able to propagate them in a camp , and were fure of a general ...
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