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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... hath been fo long fuccefsful abroad , and might think himself injured , if the entire ministry were not of his own nomination ; that there were few complaints of any confequence againft the late men in power , and none at all in ...
... hath been fo long fuccefsful abroad , and might think himself injured , if the entire ministry were not of his own nomination ; that there were few complaints of any confequence againft the late men in power , and none at all in ...
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... hath a mortgage on the whole ; and is therefore always ready to feed his vices and extravagancies , while there is any thing left . So that , if the war continue fome years longer , a landed man will be little better than B 3 than a ...
... hath a mortgage on the whole ; and is therefore always ready to feed his vices and extravagancies , while there is any thing left . So that , if the war continue fome years longer , a landed man will be little better than B 3 than a ...
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... flock - jobbers , there hath been brought in fuch a complication of knavery and cozenage , such a mystery of iniquity , and fuch an unintelligible jargon of terms ta to involve it in , as were never known in 8 THE EXAMINER . N ° 13 .
... flock - jobbers , there hath been brought in fuch a complication of knavery and cozenage , such a mystery of iniquity , and fuch an unintelligible jargon of terms ta to involve it in , as were never known in 8 THE EXAMINER . N ° 13 .
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... hath been the guardian spirit of a prevail- ing party for almost twenty years . conquer kingdoms without fighting , and fometimes with the lofs of a battle . It gives and refumes employments ; can fink a mountain to a mole - hill , and ...
... hath been the guardian spirit of a prevail- ing party for almost twenty years . conquer kingdoms without fighting , and fometimes with the lofs of a battle . It gives and refumes employments ; can fink a mountain to a mole - hill , and ...
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... hath to deal . In defcribing the virtues and vices of mankind , it is convenient , upon every article , to have fome eminent perfon in our eye , from whom we copy our defcription . I have ftrictly observed this rule ; and my imagination ...
... hath to deal . In defcribing the virtues and vices of mankind , it is convenient , upon every article , to have fome eminent perfon in our eye , from whom we copy our defcription . I have ftrictly observed this rule ; and my imagination ...
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