The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1766 |
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Page 13
... endeavour to force a lady of great virtue : the very crime which gave occafion to the expulfion of the regal power but fixty years before , as this attempt did to that of the Decem- viri . The Ephori in Sparta were at fift only certain ...
... endeavour to force a lady of great virtue : the very crime which gave occafion to the expulfion of the regal power but fixty years before , as this attempt did to that of the Decem- viri . The Ephori in Sparta were at fift only certain ...
Page 18
... endeavours after univerfal monarchy have been bandied among them , from the reign of Ninus to this of the Moft Chriftian King ; in which purfaits com- monwealths have had their fhare as well as monarchs : fo the Athenians , the Spartans ...
... endeavours after univerfal monarchy have been bandied among them , from the reign of Ninus to this of the Moft Chriftian King ; in which purfaits com- monwealths have had their fhare as well as monarchs : fo the Athenians , the Spartans ...
Page 19
... endeavours of each of thefe three rivals after abfolute power ; but I fhall fuit my discourse to the time I am writing in , and relate only fuch diffenfions in Greece and Rome , between the nobles and commons , with the confequen . ces ...
... endeavours of each of thefe three rivals after abfolute power ; but I fhall fuit my discourse to the time I am writing in , and relate only fuch diffenfions in Greece and Rome , between the nobles and commons , with the confequen . ces ...
Page 22
... endeavour at correcting an ill step ; at least to repent , though it often fell out too late . Themiftocles + was at firft a commoner hinfelf : it was he that raifed the Athenians to their greatnefs at fea , which he thought to be the ...
... endeavour at correcting an ill step ; at least to repent , though it often fell out too late . Themiftocles + was at firft a commoner hinfelf : it was he that raifed the Athenians to their greatnefs at fea , which he thought to be the ...
Page 24
... endeavour in vain for his restoration the Perfian lieutenant , to whofe protection he fled , making him a facrifice to the refentments of Lyfan- der the general of the Lacedemonians , who now re- duces all the dominions of the Athenians ...
... endeavour in vain for his restoration the Perfian lieutenant , to whofe protection he fled , making him a facrifice to the refentments of Lyfan- der the general of the Lacedemonians , who now re- duces all the dominions of the Athenians ...
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