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 of Orange , or at- tended him in his expedition , were true lovers of their country and its conftitution in church and ftate ; and were brought to yield to those breaches in the fucceffion of the crown , out of a regard to the ne ...
... prince of Orange , or at- tended him in his expedition , were true lovers of their country and its conftitution in church and ftate ; and were brought to yield to those breaches in the fucceffion of the crown , out of a regard to the ne ...
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... prince or ftate , in the continuance of a war , which was not purely defenfive , or immediately at his own door , did ever propofe that his expence fhould perpetu- ally exceed what he was able to impose annually upon his fubjects ...
... prince or ftate , in the continuance of a war , which was not purely defenfive , or immediately at his own door , did ever propofe that his expence fhould perpetu- ally exceed what he was able to impose annually upon his fubjects ...
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... prince , who , being mafter of the lives and fortunes of his fubjects , will quickly find expedients to pay his debts ; and fo will the other , by their prudent administration , the great- nefs of their trade , their wonderful parfi ...
... prince , who , being mafter of the lives and fortunes of his fubjects , will quickly find expedients to pay his debts ; and fo will the other , by their prudent administration , the great- nefs of their trade , their wonderful parfi ...
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... prince , and fe- ducing a third part of the fubjects from their obedience ; for which he was driven down from Heaven , where ( as Milton ex- preffeth it ) he had been VICEROY of a great western province ; and forced to exercise his ...
... prince , and fe- ducing a third part of the fubjects from their obedience ; for which he was driven down from Heaven , where ( as Milton ex- preffeth it ) he had been VICEROY of a great western province ; and forced to exercise his ...
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... the best princes that ever reigned , and without the leaft guilt of theirs , is fuch a truth , as a man must be a great ftranger to hiftory and The wifeft and common fenfe to doubt . prince on 28 THE EXAMINER , N ° 15 ,
... the best princes that ever reigned , and without the leaft guilt of theirs , is fuch a truth , as a man must be a great ftranger to hiftory and The wifeft and common fenfe to doubt . prince on 28 THE EXAMINER , N ° 15 ,
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