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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... prince feized on his eftate , and left him to ftarve ; hath he been hooted at , as he paffed the ftreets , by an ungrateful rabble ; have D 2 neither neither honours , offices , nor grants been conferred on N ° 16. THE EXAMINER . 35 N°
... prince feized on his eftate , and left him to ftarve ; hath he been hooted at , as he paffed the ftreets , by an ungrateful rabble ; have D 2 neither neither honours , offices , nor grants been conferred on N ° 16. THE EXAMINER . 35 N°
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Jonathan Swift John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift. neither honours , offices , nor grants been conferred on him or his family ; have not he and they been barbarously stript of them all ; have not he and his forces been ill paid abroad ; and ...
Jonathan Swift John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift. neither honours , offices , nor grants been conferred on him or his family ; have not he and they been barbarously stript of them all ; have not he and his forces been ill paid abroad ; and ...
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... honour to the general , we will place to his account ; and laftly , fometimes , al- though not very frequently , a triumphal arch . Thefe are all the rewards , that I can call to mind , which a victorious general received after his ...
... honour to the general , we will place to his account ; and laftly , fometimes , al- though not very frequently , a triumphal arch . Thefe are all the rewards , that I can call to mind , which a victorious general received after his ...
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... honour- able men , whose birth , virtue , and abilities , whofe morals and religion , whofe love of their country , and its conftitution in church and ftate , were fo univerfally allowed ; and all this fet off with odious comparifons ...
... honour- able men , whose birth , virtue , and abilities , whofe morals and religion , whofe love of their country , and its conftitution in church and ftate , were fo univerfally allowed ; and all this fet off with odious comparifons ...
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... honour of it , without intending any fuch dreadful confequences ; and in that cafe a wife prince , or ftate , may barely refuse it , without fhewing any marks of their difpleasure . But the requeft in its own nature is highly criminal ...
... honour of it , without intending any fuch dreadful confequences ; and in that cafe a wife prince , or ftate , may barely refuse it , without fhewing any marks of their difpleasure . But the requeft in its own nature is highly criminal ...
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