The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1766 |
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... give up what we cannot fairly difown , to the fe- verity of critics , the malice of perfonal enemies , and the indulgence of friends . We are forry for the fatire interspersed in some of these pieces upon a few people , from whom the ...
... give up what we cannot fairly difown , to the fe- verity of critics , the malice of perfonal enemies , and the indulgence of friends . We are forry for the fatire interspersed in some of these pieces upon a few people , from whom the ...
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... give them up ; therefore merely to divert that difficulty , and the confequences of it , he was forced to engage his coun- try in the Peloponnefian war , the longest that ever was known in Greece , and which ended in the utter ruin of ...
... give them up ; therefore merely to divert that difficulty , and the confequences of it , he was forced to engage his coun- try in the Peloponnefian war , the longest that ever was known in Greece , and which ended in the utter ruin of ...
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... Alexander and his captains , the Athe- nians were offered an opportunity of recovering their liberty , and being restored to their former ftate ; but the the wife turn they thought to give the matter , 24 CONTESTS AND DISSENSIONS.
... Alexander and his captains , the Athe- nians were offered an opportunity of recovering their liberty , and being restored to their former ftate ; but the the wife turn they thought to give the matter , 24 CONTESTS AND DISSENSIONS.
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Jonathan Swift. the wife turn they thought to give the matter , was by an impeachment and facrifice of the author , to hinder the fuccefs . For , after the deftruction of Thebes by Alexander , this prince designing the conqueft of Athens ...
Jonathan Swift. the wife turn they thought to give the matter , was by an impeachment and facrifice of the author , to hinder the fuccefs . For , after the deftruction of Thebes by Alexander , this prince designing the conqueft of Athens ...
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... gives us of thofe Grecian princes who came to the fiege of Troy , as well as by feveral paffages in the Odyffee , it is manifeft , that the power of these prin- ces in their feveral ftates was much of a fize with that of the kings in ...
... gives us of thofe Grecian princes who came to the fiege of Troy , as well as by feveral paffages in the Odyffee , it is manifeft , that the power of these prin- ces in their feveral ftates was much of a fize with that of the kings in ...
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