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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Page 73
... usually ran in the following terms : " Madam , I cannot serve you while fuch ་ a one is in employment . I defire , hum- bly , to refign my commiffion , if Mr. ( 6 continues fecretary of ftate . I cannot answer that the city will lend ...
... usually ran in the following terms : " Madam , I cannot serve you while fuch ་ a one is in employment . I defire , hum- bly , to refign my commiffion , if Mr. ( 6 continues fecretary of ftate . I cannot answer that the city will lend ...
Page 122
... usually run after the following man- " What ! Shall this infolent writer " prefume to cenfure the late miniftry , " the ableft , the most faithful , and truest " lovers of their country and its conftitu- " tion , that ever ferved a ...
... usually run after the following man- " What ! Shall this infolent writer " prefume to cenfure the late miniftry , " the ableft , the most faithful , and truest " lovers of their country and its conftitu- " tion , that ever ferved a ...
Page 142
... usually fo candid , as to call that the opinion of the party , which they hear in a coffee - houfe , or over a bottle , from fome warm young people , whom it is odds but they have provoked to fay more than they believed , by fome ...
... usually fo candid , as to call that the opinion of the party , which they hear in a coffee - houfe , or over a bottle , from fome warm young people , whom it is odds but they have provoked to fay more than they believed , by fome ...
Page 306
... usually end in a tyran- ny ; as we may fee by an hundred exam- ples in Greece , and in the later common- wealths of Italy mentioned by Machiavel . In the third place , the whigs accufe us of a defign to bring in the pretender ; and , to ...
... usually end in a tyran- ny ; as we may fee by an hundred exam- ples in Greece , and in the later common- wealths of Italy mentioned by Machiavel . In the third place , the whigs accufe us of a defign to bring in the pretender ; and , to ...
Page 315
... usually fome of the oppor- tunities that fall in the way of those who are born of what we call the better fami- lies and , allowing genius to be equal in them and the vulgar , the odds are clearly on their fide . Nay , we may obferve in ...
... usually fome of the oppor- tunities that fall in the way of those who are born of what we call the better fami- lies and , allowing genius to be equal in them and the vulgar , the odds are clearly on their fide . Nay , we may obferve in ...
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