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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... kingdom and the fafety of the people , which did , and could only , make them lawful ; but without intention of drawing fuch a practice into precedent , or making it a standing measure by which to proceed in all times to come ; and ...
... kingdom and the fafety of the people , which did , and could only , make them lawful ; but without intention of drawing fuch a practice into precedent , or making it a standing measure by which to proceed in all times to come ; and ...
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... kingdom as with a private fortune , where every new incumbrance adds a double weight . By this means the wealth of a nation , that ufed to be reckoned by the value of land , is now computed by the rife and fall of stocks : and ...
... kingdom as with a private fortune , where every new incumbrance adds a double weight . By this means the wealth of a nation , that ufed to be reckoned by the value of land , is now computed by the rife and fall of stocks : and ...
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... kingdom , it would very near , if not fully , fupply the occafions of the war , at least fuch a part as , in the opinion of very able persons , had been at that time prudent not to exceed . For I make it a question , Whether any wife ...
... kingdom , it would very near , if not fully , fupply the occafions of the war , at least fuch a part as , in the opinion of very able persons , had been at that time prudent not to exceed . For I make it a question , Whether any wife ...
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... there it is de- livered with a whisper . I know a lye , that now disturbs half the kingdom with its noife , which , although too proud and great at at present to own its parents , I can re- 14 THE EXAMINER . N ° 14 . N°
... there it is de- livered with a whisper . I know a lye , that now disturbs half the kingdom with its noife , which , although too proud and great at at present to own its parents , I can re- 14 THE EXAMINER . N ° 14 . N°
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... 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 raise a mole - hill to a mountain ; hath prefided for many years at committees of ...
... 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 raise a mole - hill to a mountain ; hath prefided for many years at committees of ...
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