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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... most skilful head in England for the management of nice affairs . The supe- riority of his genius confifts in nothing else , but an inexhaustible fund of political lyes , which he plentifully diftributes every minute he fpeaks , and by ...
... most skilful head in England for the management of nice affairs . The supe- riority of his genius confifts in nothing else , but an inexhaustible fund of political lyes , which he plentifully diftributes every minute he fpeaks , and by ...
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... most prostitute ene- my to truth may fpread a thoufand without being known for the author : befides , as the vileft writer hath his readers , fo the greatest lyar hath his believers : and it often happens , that if a lye be believed ...
... most prostitute ene- my to truth may fpread a thoufand without being known for the author : befides , as the vileft writer hath his readers , fo the greatest lyar hath his believers : and it often happens , that if a lye be believed ...
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... most dextrous artifice and management , until the people began to apprehend their properties , their religion , and the monarchy itself in dan- ger ; then we faw them greedily laying hold on the firft occafion to interpofe . But of this ...
... most dextrous artifice and management , until the people began to apprehend their properties , their religion , and the monarchy itself in dan- ger ; then we faw them greedily laying hold on the firft occafion to interpofe . But of this ...
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... most emi- nent fervices , that ever were performed by a fubject to his country ; not to be equalled in hiftory and then , to be fure , fome bitter ftroke of detraction against Alexander and Cafar , who never did us the least injury ...
... most emi- nent fervices , that ever were performed by a fubject to his country ; not to be equalled in hiftory and then , to be fure , fome bitter ftroke of detraction against Alexander and Cafar , who never did us the least injury ...
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... most deferving generals : while the profounder politicians have feen pamphlets , where Tacitus and Ma- chiavel have been quoted to fhew the danger of too refplendent a merit . If a stranger fhould hear these furious out - cries of ingra ...
... most deferving generals : while the profounder politicians have feen pamphlets , where Tacitus and Ma- chiavel have been quoted to fhew the danger of too refplendent a merit . If a stranger fhould hear these furious out - cries of ingra ...
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