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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... give uneafinefs to a general , who hath been fo long fuccefsful abroad , and might think bimfelf injured , if the entire miniftry were not of his own nomination ; that there were few complaints of any confequence against the late men in ...
... give uneafinefs to a general , who hath been fo long fuccefsful abroad , and might think bimfelf injured , if the entire miniftry were not of his own nomination ; that there were few complaints of any confequence against the late men in ...
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... gives and refumes employments ; can fink a mountain to a mole- hill , and raife a mole - hill to a mountain ; hath prefided for many years at committees of elections ; can wafli a black - moor white ; make a faint of an atheist , and a ...
... gives and refumes employments ; can fink a mountain to a mole- hill , and raife a mole - hill to a mountain ; hath prefided for many years at committees of elections ; can wafli a black - moor white ; make a faint of an atheist , and a ...
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... give reputation and fuccels to the revolution , were not only laid afide as dangerous and useless , but loaden with the scandal of Jacobites , men of arbitrary principles , and penfioners to France ; while Truth , who is faid to lie in ...
... give reputation and fuccels to the revolution , were not only laid afide as dangerous and useless , but loaden with the scandal of Jacobites , men of arbitrary principles , and penfioners to France ; while Truth , who is faid to lie in ...
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... give ne occafion for many fpeculations . I obferved with fingular pleafure the nature of thofe things , which the owners of them ufually call Anfwers , and with what dexterity this match- lefs author had fallen into the whole art and ...
... give ne occafion for many fpeculations . I obferved with fingular pleafure the nature of thofe things , which the owners of them ufually call Anfwers , and with what dexterity this match- lefs author had fallen into the whole art and ...
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... gives out , by " the influence of his wealth to be here ab- " folved . In condemning this man you have 66 an opportunity of belying that general " fcandal , of redeeming the credit loft by " former judgments , and recovering the love ...
... gives out , by " the influence of his wealth to be here ab- " folved . In condemning this man you have 66 an opportunity of belying that general " fcandal , of redeeming the credit loft by " former judgments , and recovering the love ...
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