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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... offer them comfort one by one , would be not only an endless , but a disobliging task . Some of them , I am con- vinced , would be lefs melancholy if there were more occafion . I fhall therefore , in- ftead of hearkening to farther ...
... offer them comfort one by one , would be not only an endless , but a disobliging task . Some of them , I am con- vinced , would be lefs melancholy if there were more occafion . I fhall therefore , in- ftead of hearkening to farther ...
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... offer fuch terms as will make it both honourable and lafting ; only with this difference , that the ministry perhaps will not again refuse them . Audiet pugnas , vitio parentum Rara , Juventus . THE NUMBER XIV . Thursday , November 9 ...
... offer fuch terms as will make it both honourable and lafting ; only with this difference , that the ministry perhaps will not again refuse them . Audiet pugnas , vitio parentum Rara , Juventus . THE NUMBER XIV . Thursday , November 9 ...
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... offered them to gratify their paffions or interests from one fett of men than another , until they are too far involved for a retreat ; and fo be forced to take feven fpirits more wicked than themfelves . This is a very poffible cafe ...
... offered them to gratify their paffions or interests from one fett of men than another , until they are too far involved for a retreat ; and fo be forced to take feven fpirits more wicked than themfelves . This is a very poffible cafe ...
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... offer , amounting to 18,000l . Her Majefty was pleased to answer , I might charge it . This therefore I did . Account of the conduct of the dowager duchess of Marl- borough , p . 294 , 295 . NUM- NUMBER XVII . Thursday , November 30 ...
... offer , amounting to 18,000l . Her Majefty was pleased to answer , I might charge it . This therefore I did . Account of the conduct of the dowager duchess of Marl- borough , p . 294 , 295 . NUM- NUMBER XVII . Thursday , November 30 ...
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... offered their fervice , dog- cheap , to the present ministry , but were all refused ; and are now maintained by contribution , like Jacobites or fanaticks . I have been of late employed , out of per- fect commiferation , in doing them ...
... offered their fervice , dog- cheap , to the present ministry , but were all refused ; and are now maintained by contribution , like Jacobites or fanaticks . I have been of late employed , out of per- fect commiferation , in doing them ...
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