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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... subjects from their obedience ; for which he was driven down from Heaven ( where , as Milton expref- feth it , he had been VICEROY of a great western province ) and forced to exercife his talent in inferior regions among other fallen ...
... subjects from their obedience ; for which he was driven down from Heaven ( where , as Milton expref- feth it , he had been VICEROY of a great western province ) and forced to exercife his talent in inferior regions among other fallen ...
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... subject ought to suppose , that in fuch a cafe there are fuch reafons , al- though he be not apprifed of them ; other- wife he must inwardly tax his prince of ca- pricioufnefs , inconftancy , or ill defign . Such reasons indeed may not ...
... subject ought to suppose , that in fuch a cafe there are fuch reafons , al- though he be not apprifed of them ; other- wife he must inwardly tax his prince of ca- pricioufnefs , inconftancy , or ill defign . Such reasons indeed may not ...
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... subject for the present , when I have told one story . " There was a great king in Scythia , whofe dominions 66 were bounded on the north by the poor mountainous territories of a petty lord , " who paid homage , as the king's vaffal ...
... subject for the present , when I have told one story . " There was a great king in Scythia , whofe dominions 66 were bounded on the north by the poor mountainous territories of a petty lord , " who paid homage , as the king's vaffal ...
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... the people : fo that whenever those two paffions happen to meet in the same subject , it is not unlikely that providence hath placed varice to be a check check upon ambition ; and I have reason to think 734 THE EXAMINER . No. 27 .
... the people : fo that whenever those two paffions happen to meet in the same subject , it is not unlikely that providence hath placed varice to be a check check upon ambition ; and I have reason to think 734 THE EXAMINER . No. 27 .
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... subject ? Have they offered at any dangerous innovations in church or state ? Have they broached any doctrine or herefy , rebellion or tyranny ? Have any of them treated their fovereign with insolence , engroffed and fold all her fa ...
... subject ? Have they offered at any dangerous innovations in church or state ? Have they broached any doctrine or herefy , rebellion or tyranny ? Have any of them treated their fovereign with insolence , engroffed and fold all her fa ...
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