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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... those counfels , who have been ever averse from all overtures towards a peace : but yet there is no great mystery in the matter . Let any man observe the equipages in this town , he shall find the greater number of those who make a ...
... those counfels , who have been ever averse from all overtures towards a peace : but yet there is no great mystery in the matter . Let any man observe the equipages in this town , he shall find the greater number of those who make a ...
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... those breaches in the fucceffion of the crown , out of a regard to the ne- ceffity of the kingdom and the fafety of the people , which did , and could only , make them lawful ; but without intention of drawing fuch a practice into ...
... those breaches in the fucceffion of the crown , out of a regard to the ne- ceffity of the kingdom and the fafety of the people , which did , and could only , make them lawful ; but without intention of drawing fuch a practice into ...
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... those pernicious expedients of borrowing money by vaft premiums , and at exorbitant intereft : a practice as old as Eumenes , one of Alexander's captains , who , fetting up for himself after the death of his mafter , perfuaded his ...
... those pernicious expedients of borrowing money by vaft premiums , and at exorbitant intereft : a practice as old as Eumenes , one of Alexander's captains , who , fetting up for himself after the death of his mafter , perfuaded his ...
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Jonathan Swift John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift. ney into those funds , to great advantage : merchants , as well as other monied men , finding trade was dangerous , pursued the fame method . But the war continuing , and growing more ...
Jonathan Swift John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift. ney into those funds , to great advantage : merchants , as well as other monied men , finding trade was dangerous , pursued the fame method . But the war continuing , and growing more ...
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... those that tread upon them . But the fame genealogy cannot always be admitted for political lying ; I fhall therefore defire to refine upon it , by add- ing fome circumftances of its birth and parents . A political lye is fometimes born ...
... those that tread upon them . But the fame genealogy cannot always be admitted for political lying ; I fhall therefore defire to refine upon it , by add- ing fome circumftances of its birth and parents . A political lye is fometimes born ...
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Page 308 - Whig, that the more revolutions the better ; which, how odd a maxim soever in appearance, I take to be the true characteristic of the party. A dog loves to turn round often; yet after certain revolutions he lies down to rest: but heads under the...
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