The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ...W. Bowyer, C. Bathurst, W. Owen, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis, and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder and Company and B. Collins., 1768 |
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... allowed to wifh it might foon have an end ; because it is with a kingdom as with a private fortune , where every new incumbrance adds a double weight . By this means the wealth of a nation , that ufed to be reckoned by the value of land ...
... allowed to wifh it might foon have an end ; because it is with a kingdom as with a private fortune , where every new incumbrance adds a double weight . By this means the wealth of a nation , that ufed to be reckoned by the value of land ...
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... allowed chriftian burial ? not doubting but we had put him to fome ignominious death . Or , hath he been tried for his life , and very narrowly ef caped ; hath he been accufed of high crimes and misdemeanors ; hath the prince feized on ...
... allowed chriftian burial ? not doubting but we had put him to fome ignominious death . Or , hath he been tried for his life , and very narrowly ef caped ; hath he been accufed of high crimes and misdemeanors ; hath the prince feized on ...
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... allow me to charge in the privy purse ac- counts , which I was to fend her , that yearly fum from the time of the offer , amounting to 18,000l . Her Majefty was pleased to answer , I might charge it . This therefore I did . Account of ...
... allow me to charge in the privy purse ac- counts , which I was to fend her , that yearly fum from the time of the offer , amounting to 18,000l . Her Majefty was pleased to answer , I might charge it . This therefore I did . Account of ...
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... allow , it is written by a club , and that very great hands have fingers in it . As for thofe who only appear its adverfaries in print , they give me but very little pain . The paper I hold , lies at my mercy , and I can govern it as I ...
... allow , it is written by a club , and that very great hands have fingers in it . As for thofe who only appear its adverfaries in print , they give me but very little pain . The paper I hold , lies at my mercy , and I can govern it as I ...
Page 65
... of their country , and its conftitution in church and ftate , were fo univerfally allowed ; and all this fet off with odious comparifons , re- VOL . VIII . flecting F Acting on the prefent choice : is not this in N ° 18. THE EXAMINER . 65.
... of their country , and its conftitution in church and ftate , were fo univerfally allowed ; and all this fet off with odious comparifons , re- VOL . VIII . flecting F Acting on the prefent choice : is not this in N ° 18. THE EXAMINER . 65.
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