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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... clergy with the doctrines of divine right , paffive obedience , and non refiftance . At the fame time , in order to fasten weal- thy people to the new government , they proposed those pernicious expedients of borrowing money by vaft ...
... clergy with the doctrines of divine right , paffive obedience , and non refiftance . At the fame time , in order to fasten weal- thy people to the new government , they proposed those pernicious expedients of borrowing money by vaft ...
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... clergy . I had then a footman , who was fond of reading the Bible : and I borrowed a comment for him , which he ftudied fo close , that in a month or two I thought him a match for the farmer . They dif- puted at feveral houfes , with a ...
... clergy . I had then a footman , who was fond of reading the Bible : and I borrowed a comment for him , which he ftudied fo close , that in a month or two I thought him a match for the farmer . They dif- puted at feveral houfes , with a ...
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... clergy and others to fay or hint , that the church was in danger , when it was voted otherwife in parliament fome years ago ; and the queen herself , in her last speech , did openly condemn all such infinuations . Notwithstanding which ...
... clergy and others to fay or hint , that the church was in danger , when it was voted otherwife in parliament fome years ago ; and the queen herself , in her last speech , did openly condemn all such infinuations . Notwithstanding which ...
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... clergy , and nine parts in ten of the kingdom ) ; and I faid to a gentleman near me , that although I knew well enough what perfons the author meant , yet there were feveral particulars in the husband's character , which I could not ...
... clergy , and nine parts in ten of the kingdom ) ; and I faid to a gentleman near me , that although I knew well enough what perfons the author meant , yet there were feveral particulars in the husband's character , which I could not ...
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... clergy , who are apt to infuse into their pupils too great a regard for the church and the monarchy . But there was a farther fecret in this claufe , which may best be discovered by the firft projectors , or at least the garblers of it ...
... clergy , who are apt to infuse into their pupils too great a regard for the church and the monarchy . But there was a farther fecret in this claufe , which may best be discovered by the firft projectors , or at least the garblers of it ...
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