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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... former two . If the generality of the people know not how to talk or think , until they have read their leffon in the papers of the week , what a misfortune is it , that their duty should be conveyed to them through fuch vehicles as ...
... former two . If the generality of the people know not how to talk or think , until they have read their leffon in the papers of the week , what a misfortune is it , that their duty should be conveyed to them through fuch vehicles as ...
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... former paper ( Number 13 ) that one fpecious objection to the late re- movals at court was the fear of giving uneafinefs to a general , who hath been long fuccefsful abroad ; and accordingly , the common clamour of tongues and pens for ...
... former paper ( Number 13 ) that one fpecious objection to the late re- movals at court was the fear of giving uneafinefs to a general , who hath been long fuccefsful abroad ; and accordingly , the common clamour of tongues and pens for ...
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... former ; let us therefore in the fecond place examine , how the fervices of our general have been rewarded ; and whether upon that article either prince or people have been guilty of ingratitude ? Those are the most valuable rewards ...
... former ; let us therefore in the fecond place examine , how the fervices of our general have been rewarded ; and whether upon that article either prince or people have been guilty of ingratitude ? Those are the most valuable rewards ...
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... former grants , fhe wanted the power her predeceffors had enjoyed to reward faithful fervants ; and the defired me to take out of the privy purfe 2000l . a year , in order to purchase for my advantage . - As her MA- JESTY was fo good to ...
... former grants , fhe wanted the power her predeceffors had enjoyed to reward faithful fervants ; and the defired me to take out of the privy purfe 2000l . a year , in order to purchase for my advantage . - As her MA- JESTY was fo good to ...
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... former ftate , and hardly recover itself " 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 ...
... former ftate , and hardly recover itself " 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 ...
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