The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1766 |
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... army , in a warlike commonwealth , and often fupported by each other , were , with the magiftrates and other civil officers , a fort of counterpoife to the power of the people , who , fince the death of Solon , had already made great ...
... army , in a warlike commonwealth , and often fupported by each other , were , with the magiftrates and other civil officers , a fort of counterpoife to the power of the people , who , fince the death of Solon , had already made great ...
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... army , where he was very powerful . It feems , he understood the refentments of a popular af- fembly too well to trust them ; and therefore , instead of returning , efcaped to Sparta ; where his defires of revenge prevailing over his ...
... army , where he was very powerful . It feems , he understood the refentments of a popular af- fembly too well to trust them ; and therefore , instead of returning , efcaped to Sparta ; where his defires of revenge prevailing over his ...
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... army in disguise ; and when- exe he happens either to die naturally , be knocked on the head , or depofed , the people calmly take further mea · fures and improve upon what was begun under his unlimit- ted power . All this our author ...
... army in disguise ; and when- exe he happens either to die naturally , be knocked on the head , or depofed , the people calmly take further mea · fures and improve upon what was begun under his unlimit- ted power . All this our author ...
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... army , and defigns to employ it in bringing over the pretender : the third is , Henry St John , Lord Viscount Bolingbroke , fecretary of state , who must be fuppofed to hold a conftant correfpondence at the court . of Bar le Duc , as ...
... army , and defigns to employ it in bringing over the pretender : the third is , Henry St John , Lord Viscount Bolingbroke , fecretary of state , who must be fuppofed to hold a conftant correfpondence at the court . of Bar le Duc , as ...
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... army ; yet we had no reafon to boait- of our fuccefs ; how then should we be able to oppofe France with thofe powers against us , which would carry fixty thousand men from us to the eneiny ; and fo make us upon the balance weaker by one ...
... army ; yet we had no reafon to boait- of our fuccefs ; how then should we be able to oppofe France with thofe powers against us , which would carry fixty thousand men from us to the eneiny ; and fo make us upon the balance weaker by one ...
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