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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Page 50
... house looking into one of the politic weekly I found the writer had fallen into this fcheme ; and I happened to light on that part , where he was defcribing a person , who from fmall beginnings grew ( as I re- member ) to be conftable ...
... house looking into one of the politic weekly I found the writer had fallen into this fcheme ; and I happened to light on that part , where he was defcribing a person , who from fmall beginnings grew ( as I re- member ) to be conftable ...
Page 59
... houses of parliament , and nine parts in ten of the kingdom , have fo unanimoufly embraced ? I am cruelly afraid , we politic authors must begin to leffen our expences , and lie for the future at the mercy of our our printers . All ...
... houses of parliament , and nine parts in ten of the kingdom , have fo unanimoufly embraced ? I am cruelly afraid , we politic authors must begin to leffen our expences , and lie for the future at the mercy of our our printers . All ...
Page 68
... houses have unanimously agreed with her in every article . When the leaft counterpaces are made to any of thefe refolutions , it will then be time enough for our malecontents to bawl out popery , perfecution , arbitrary power , and the ...
... houses have unanimously agreed with her in every article . When the leaft counterpaces are made to any of thefe refolutions , it will then be time enough for our malecontents to bawl out popery , perfecution , arbitrary power , and the ...
Page 69
... houses , have fwinged off the Examiner ; most of which I had never feen or heard of before . I remember fome time ago , in one of the Tatlers , to F 3 have کر have read a letter , wherein feveral reasons are affigned N ° 19. THE ...
... houses , have fwinged off the Examiner ; most of which I had never feen or heard of before . I remember fome time ago , in one of the Tatlers , to F 3 have کر have read a letter , wherein feveral reasons are affigned N ° 19. THE ...
Page 86
... to their trade . When they hear any of us , in a coffee - house , wondering that fuch a victory was not pursued ; complaining that fuch a town coft more men and money than than it was worth to take it ; or that 86 THE EXAMINER . N ° 20 .
... to their trade . When they hear any of us , in a coffee - house , wondering that fuch a victory was not pursued ; complaining that fuch a town coft more men and money than than it was worth to take it ; or that 86 THE EXAMINER . N ° 20 .
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