The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1766 |
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... Such as they are , we must in truth confefs , they are ours , and others fhould in juftice believe , they are all that are ours . If any thing elfe has been printed , in which we really had any hand , it is either intolerably imperfect ...
... Such as they are , we must in truth confefs , they are ours , and others fhould in juftice believe , they are all that are ours . If any thing elfe has been printed , in which we really had any hand , it is either intolerably imperfect ...
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... such hands as would preferve the people from rapine and op- preffion within , as well as violence from without . Most of them feem to agree in this , that it was a trust too great to be committed to any one man or affembly , and ...
... such hands as would preferve the people from rapine and op- preffion within , as well as violence from without . Most of them feem to agree in this , that it was a trust too great to be committed to any one man or affembly , and ...
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... Such was that of the two Kings of Sparta , the confular power in Rome , that of the Kings of Media before the reign of Cy- rus , as reprefented by Xenophon ; and that of the feve ral limited states in the Gothic inftitution . When the ...
... Such was that of the two Kings of Sparta , the confular power in Rome , that of the Kings of Media before the reign of Cy- rus , as reprefented by Xenophon ; and that of the feve ral limited states in the Gothic inftitution . When the ...
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... Such was that of Sparta , in its primitive in- ftitution by Lycurgus ; who , obferving the corruptions and depravations to which every of thefe was fubject , compounded his scheme out of all , fo that it was made up of reges , feniores ...
... Such was that of Sparta , in its primitive in- ftitution by Lycurgus ; who , obferving the corruptions and depravations to which every of thefe was fubject , compounded his scheme out of all , fo that it was made up of reges , feniores ...
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... Such , we are told , were the pro- ceedings of Solon , when he modelled anew the Athenian commonwealth ; and what convulfions in our own , as * This seems to allude to a practice of the houfe of Commons called Tacking : when they ...
... Such , we are told , were the pro- ceedings of Solon , when he modelled anew the Athenian commonwealth ; and what convulfions in our own , as * This seems to allude to a practice of the houfe of Commons called Tacking : when they ...
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