The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ...W. Bowyer, C. Bathurst, W. Owen, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis, and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder and Company and B. Collins., 1768 |
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Page 49
... and with the abfolute power of altering , adding , or fuppreffing what circumftances we please , I conceive we must have very * L . Chancellor Couper , VOL . VIII . E bad papers , bad luck , or very little skill , N ° 17. THE EXAMINER . 49.
... and with the abfolute power of altering , adding , or fuppreffing what circumftances we please , I conceive we must have very * L . Chancellor Couper , VOL . VIII . E bad papers , bad luck , or very little skill , N ° 17. THE EXAMINER . 49.
Page 59
... kingdom , have fo unanimoufly embraced ? I am cruelly afraid , we politic authors must begin to leffen our expences , and lie for the future at the mercy of our our printers . All hopes are now gone of writing N ° 18. THE EXAMINER . 59.
... kingdom , have fo unanimoufly embraced ? I am cruelly afraid , we politic authors must begin to leffen our expences , and lie for the future at the mercy of our our printers . All hopes are now gone of writing N ° 18. THE EXAMINER . 59.
Page 63
... must have been great , which first introduced them , before our taxes were eaten up by annuities . If I were able to rip up , and discover in all their colours , only about eight or nine thousand of the moft fcandalous ab- ufes , that ...
... must have been great , which first introduced them , before our taxes were eaten up by annuities . If I were able to rip up , and discover in all their colours , only about eight or nine thousand of the moft fcandalous ab- ufes , that ...
Page 65
... must have ended in ruin without fome fpeedy reformation . This I have already afferted in a former paper ; and the replies I have read , or heard , have been in plain terms to affirm the direct contrary ; and not only to defend and ...
... must have ended in ruin without fome fpeedy reformation . This I have already afferted in a former paper ; and the replies I have read , or heard , have been in plain terms to affirm the direct contrary ; and not only to defend and ...
Page 70
... must now take leave to fay , that fo weak a caufe , and fo ruined a faclion , were never provided with pens more refembling their condition , or lefs fuited to their occafions . Non tali auxilio , nec defenforibus iftis , Tempus eget ...
... must now take leave to fay , that fo weak a caufe , and fo ruined a faclion , were never provided with pens more refembling their condition , or lefs fuited to their occafions . Non tali auxilio , nec defenforibus iftis , Tempus eget ...
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