The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, 1784 |
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... late has very much affected me , which I have considered with a good deal of appli- cation , and made feveral enquiries about among those persons , who , I thought , were best able to inform me ; and if I deliver my fentiments with fome ...
... late has very much affected me , which I have considered with a good deal of appli- cation , and made feveral enquiries about among those persons , who , I thought , were best able to inform me ; and if I deliver my fentiments with fome ...
Page 36
... late majefty queen Anne . * The matter was this : At the QUEEN's acceffion to the government , fhe used to lament to me , that , the crown being impoverished by former grants , fhe wanted the power her predeceffors had enjoyed to reward ...
... late majefty queen Anne . * The matter was this : At the QUEEN's acceffion to the government , fhe used to lament to me , that , the crown being impoverished by former grants , fhe wanted the power her predeceffors had enjoyed to reward ...
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... late " fuch monuments of his villainies in Sicily , made fuch havock and confufion there , during his go- " vernment , that the province cannot by any " means be reftored to its former state , and hardly " recover itfelf at all , under ...
... late " fuch monuments of his villainies in Sicily , made fuch havock and confufion there , during his go- " vernment , that the province cannot by any " means be reftored to its former state , and hardly " recover itfelf at all , under ...
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... late administration , told me , with a heavy heart , about a month ago , that he , and fome others of his brethren , had fecretly of- fered their fervice , dog - cheap , to the prefent mi- nistry , but were all refufed ; and are now ...
... late administration , told me , with a heavy heart , about a month ago , that he , and fome others of his brethren , had fecretly of- fered their fervice , dog - cheap , to the prefent mi- nistry , but were all refufed ; and are now ...
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... late changes , which , as they pretend to think , were made without any reafon visible to the world . In , anfwer to this , it is not . fufficient to alledge , what nobody doubts , that a good and wife prince , may be allowed to change ...
... late changes , which , as they pretend to think , were made without any reafon visible to the world . In , anfwer to this , it is not . fufficient to alledge , what nobody doubts , that a good and wife prince , may be allowed to change ...
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