The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1766 |
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Page 14
... allowing one man to every houfe , who could have any fhare in the government , ( the reft confifting of women , chil- dren , and fervants ) , and making other obvious abate- ments , these tyrants , if they had been careful to adhere ...
... allowing one man to every houfe , who could have any fhare in the government , ( the reft confifting of women , chil- dren , and fervants ) , and making other obvious abate- ments , these tyrants , if they had been careful to adhere ...
Page 39
... allowing this right of impeachment to be as inherent as they please , yet , if the commons have been perpetually mistaken in the merits of the causes and the perfons , as well as in the con- fequences of fuch impeachments upon the peace ...
... allowing this right of impeachment to be as inherent as they please , yet , if the commons have been perpetually mistaken in the merits of the causes and the perfons , as well as in the con- fequences of fuch impeachments upon the peace ...
Page 47
... allowed to be exempt from several im- at a nightly meeting of several curious gentlemen in New Pa- lace Yard , Weftminfter . This club was called the Rota ; and Mr Henry Nevil , one of its members , propofed to the then houfe of Commons ...
... allowed to be exempt from several im- at a nightly meeting of several curious gentlemen in New Pa- lace Yard , Weftminfter . This club was called the Rota ; and Mr Henry Nevil , one of its members , propofed to the then houfe of Commons ...
Page 48
... allow , that abundance of indigested and abortive , many pernicious and foolish overtures would arife , and float a few minutes ; but then they would die and disappear . Be- cause this must be faid in behalf of human kind , that common ...
... allow , that abundance of indigested and abortive , many pernicious and foolish overtures would arife , and float a few minutes ; but then they would die and disappear . Be- cause this must be faid in behalf of human kind , that common ...
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... allows himself to be upon a level with the rest of mortals : here he fallows his own reafon , and his own . way ; and rather affects a fingularity in his actions and thoughts , than fervilely to copy either from the wi- feft of his ...
... allows himself to be upon a level with the rest of mortals : here he fallows his own reafon , and his own . way ; and rather affects a fingularity in his actions and thoughts , than fervilely to copy either from the wi- feft of his ...
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