The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1766 |
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Page 59
... better to adjust them to the pannels . I am fenfible it is of little confequence to their cause , whether this defender of it understands graminar or no ; and if what he would fain fay , difcovered him to be a wellwisher to reafon or ...
... better to adjust them to the pannels . I am fenfible it is of little confequence to their cause , whether this defender of it understands graminar or no ; and if what he would fain fay , difcovered him to be a wellwisher to reafon or ...
Page 65
... better of their interest . For let him fearch all the rest of the kingdom , he will find the fur- rounded clergy , and the furrounding gentry wholly ftrangers to the merits of those prelates ; and adhering to a very different cause of ...
... better of their interest . For let him fearch all the rest of the kingdom , he will find the fur- rounded clergy , and the furrounding gentry wholly ftrangers to the merits of those prelates ; and adhering to a very different cause of ...
Page 69
... better than either ; that no man can be happy without the liberty of doing whatever his own mind tells him is beft ; that men of quality love liberty , and common people love liberty ; even women and children love liberty ; and you ...
... better than either ; that no man can be happy without the liberty of doing whatever his own mind tells him is beft ; that men of quality love liberty , and common people love liberty ; even women and children love liberty ; and you ...
Page 77
... better . What crowns or kingdoms hath France dealt about ? Spain was given by the will of the former King , in confequence of that infamous treaty of partition , the adviser of which will , I hope , never be forgot in Eng- land . Sicily ...
... better . What crowns or kingdoms hath France dealt about ? Spain was given by the will of the former King , in confequence of that infamous treaty of partition , the adviser of which will , I hope , never be forgot in Eng- land . Sicily ...
Page 80
... better historians than the author of the Crifis , or myfelf ; and go on to inform the prefent age in fome facts , which this great orator and politician thinks fit to mifrepresent with the utmost de- gree either of natural or wilful ...
... better historians than the author of the Crifis , or myfelf ; and go on to inform the prefent age in fome facts , which this great orator and politician thinks fit to mifrepresent with the utmost de- gree either of natural or wilful ...
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