The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised, in Twelve Volumes. Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volume 8C. Bathurst, T. Osborne, W. Bowyer, J. Hinton, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Davis and C. Reymers, and J. Dodsley., 1765 |
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... I was at the pains to read ; and they are just fuch an anfwer , as the two others I have mentioned . This is all I have to say on that matter . C NUM . NUMBER XVI . Thursday , November 23 , 1710 . No. 15 . 25 THE EXAMINER . No 112.
... I was at the pains to read ; and they are just fuch an anfwer , as the two others I have mentioned . This is all I have to say on that matter . C NUM . NUMBER XVI . Thursday , November 23 , 1710 . No. 15 . 25 THE EXAMINER . No 112.
Page 65
... say , gene- ral for life ; which gave him the power and the will of utterly deftroying the Roman li- berty . But , in his time , the Romans were very much degenerated , and great corruptions had crept into their morals and difcipline ...
... say , gene- ral for life ; which gave him the power and the will of utterly deftroying the Roman li- berty . But , in his time , the Romans were very much degenerated , and great corruptions had crept into their morals and difcipline ...
Page 69
... the king to a trial . Some years after , when they erected a military government , and ruled the island by major generals , we received moft . admirable admirable instances of their skill in politicks . To say No. 20 . 69 THE EXAMINER .
... the king to a trial . Some years after , when they erected a military government , and ruled the island by major generals , we received moft . admirable admirable instances of their skill in politicks . To say No. 20 . 69 THE EXAMINER .
Page 70
... say the truth , fuch formidable sticklers can have but two reafons for defiring to in- terfere in the administration ; the first is that of Cafar and Cromwell , of which God for . bid I fhould accuse or suspect any body , fince the ...
... say the truth , fuch formidable sticklers can have but two reafons for defiring to in- terfere in the administration ; the first is that of Cafar and Cromwell , of which God for . bid I fhould accuse or suspect any body , fince the ...
Page 86
... say to this malicious in- nuendo . Having thus , I hope , given a full and fa- tisfactory anfwer to the Examiner's last pa- per , I fhall now go on to a more important affair , which is , to prove , by several unde- niable inftances ...
... say to this malicious in- nuendo . Having thus , I hope , given a full and fa- tisfactory anfwer to the Examiner's last pa- per , I fhall now go on to a more important affair , which is , to prove , by several unde- niable inftances ...
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