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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... parliament , which on the contrary paffed votes in favour of the chief minister ; that , if her majefty had a mind to introduce the other party , it would have been more feasonable after a peace , which now we have made defperate by ...
... parliament , which on the contrary paffed votes in favour of the chief minister ; that , if her majefty had a mind to introduce the other party , it would have been more feasonable after a peace , which now we have made defperate by ...
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... parliament and ministry at this juncture , and extri- cating herself as foon as poffible out of the pupillage of thofe , who found their accounts only in perpetuating the war . Neither have we the leaft reafon to doubt , but the ensuing ...
... parliament and ministry at this juncture , and extri- cating herself as foon as poffible out of the pupillage of thofe , who found their accounts only in perpetuating the war . Neither have we the leaft reafon to doubt , but the ensuing ...
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... parliament fome years ago ; and the queen herself , in her last speech , did openly condemn all such infinuations . Notwithstanding which , I did then , and do ftill , believe the church hath , fince that vote , been in very imminent ...
... parliament fome years ago ; and the queen herself , in her last speech , did openly condemn all such infinuations . Notwithstanding which , I did then , and do ftill , believe the church hath , fince that vote , been in very imminent ...
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... parliament , but it is a plot to dethrone herself and bring in the pretender ; half a score stock - jobbers are playing the knave in Exchange - alley , and there goes the pretender with a sponge . One would be apt to think , they bawl ...
... parliament , but it is a plot to dethrone herself and bring in the pretender ; half a score stock - jobbers are playing the knave in Exchange - alley , and there goes the pretender with a sponge . One would be apt to think , they bawl ...
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... parliament can make it , That her pre- fent majefty is heir to the furvivor of the late king and queen her fifter : is not that an hereditary right ? What need we ex- plain it any farther ? I have known an article of faith expounded in ...
... parliament can make it , That her pre- fent majefty is heir to the furvivor of the late king and queen her fifter : is not that an hereditary right ? What need we ex- plain it any farther ? I have known an article of faith expounded in ...
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