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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... fome contempt , that I have ob- ferved perfons , wholly out of employment , affect to do otherwife . I doubted , whether any man could owe fo much to the fide he was of , although he were retained by it ; but without fome great point of ...
... fome contempt , that I have ob- ferved perfons , wholly out of employment , affect to do otherwife . I doubted , whether any man could owe fo much to the fide he was of , although he were retained by it ; but without fome great point of ...
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... fome part of this paper for the future in let- ting fuch men fee , that their natural or ac- quired fears are ill - grounded , and their arti- ficial ones as ill - intended ; that all our pre- fent inconveniencies are the confequence of ...
... fome part of this paper for the future in let- ting fuch men fee , that their natural or ac- quired fears are ill - grounded , and their arti- ficial ones as ill - intended ; that all our pre- fent inconveniencies are the confequence of ...
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... fome diligent enquiries . I fhall therefore confider it only according to the modern fyftem , as it hath been cultivated thefe twenty years paft in the fouthern part of our own island . The poets tell us , that after the giants were ...
... fome diligent enquiries . I fhall therefore confider it only according to the modern fyftem , as it hath been cultivated thefe twenty years paft in the fouthern part of our own island . The poets tell us , that after the giants were ...
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... fome people , like flies about a horfe's ears in fummer ; or thofe le- gions hovering every afternoon in Exchange- alley , enough to darken the air ; or over a club of difcontented grandees , and thence fent down in cargoes to be ...
... fome people , like flies about a horfe's ears in fummer ; or thofe le- gions hovering every afternoon in Exchange- alley , enough to darken the air ; or over a club of difcontented grandees , and thence fent down in cargoes to be ...
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... fome eminent perfon in our eye , from whom we copy our description . I have strictly observed this rule ; and my imagination this minute represents before me a certain great man [ a ] famous for this talent , to the conftant prac- tice ...
... fome eminent perfon in our eye , from whom we copy our description . I have strictly observed this rule ; and my imagination this minute represents before me a certain great man [ a ] famous for this talent , to the conftant prac- tice ...
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