The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1766 |
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... peace at home ; this commences a great council or fenate of nobles for the weighty affairs of the nation . The laft divifion is of the mafs or body of the people , whofe part of power is great and indifputable , whenever they can unite ...
... peace at home ; this commences a great council or fenate of nobles for the weighty affairs of the nation . The laft divifion is of the mafs or body of the people , whofe part of power is great and indifputable , whenever they can unite ...
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... peace , by which his country was preserved . I fhall conclude my remarks upon Athens with the character given us of that people by Polybius . About this time , lays he , the Athenians were governed by two men ; quite funk in their ...
... peace , by which his country was preserved . I fhall conclude my remarks upon Athens with the character given us of that people by Polybius . About this time , lays he , the Athenians were governed by two men ; quite funk in their ...
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... peace the quarrels between the nobles and the plebeians would revive ; and one of the most frequent fubjects of their differences was the conquered lands , which the coinmons would fain have divided among the public ; but the fenate ...
... peace the quarrels between the nobles and the plebeians would revive ; and one of the most frequent fubjects of their differences was the conquered lands , which the coinmons would fain have divided among the public ; but the fenate ...
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... peace , fell violently upon advancing the power of the people by reducing into practice all thofe incroachments , which they had been fo many years gaining . There were at that time certain conquered lands to be divided , befide a great ...
... peace , fell violently upon advancing the power of the people by reducing into practice all thofe incroachments , which they had been fo many years gaining . There were at that time certain conquered lands to be divided , befide a great ...
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... peace of the ftate , we cannot conclude lefs , than that the commons in Greece and Rome ( whatever they may be in other states ) were by no means qualified either as profecutors or judges in fuch matters ; and therefore that it would ...
... peace of the ftate , we cannot conclude lefs , than that the commons in Greece and Rome ( whatever they may be in other states ) were by no means qualified either as profecutors or judges in fuch matters ; and therefore that it would ...
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