The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1766 |
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... perhaps very little to our credit ) , but fuch as in any probability hereafter may run the fame fate ; having been obtained from us by the importunity , and divulged by the indifcretion of friends , although reftrained by promifes ...
... perhaps very little to our credit ) , but fuch as in any probability hereafter may run the fame fate ; having been obtained from us by the importunity , and divulged by the indifcretion of friends , although reftrained by promifes ...
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... perhaps moft writers of our kind have been in the fame circumftances ) that in feveral parts of our lives , and according to the difpofitions we were in , we have written fome things which we may wish never to have thought on . Some ...
... perhaps moft writers of our kind have been in the fame circumftances ) that in feveral parts of our lives , and according to the difpofitions we were in , we have written fome things which we may wish never to have thought on . Some ...
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... perhaps be worth noting . From what hath been already advanced , several con- clufions may be drawn : If , That a mixed government partaking of the known forms received in the schools is by no means of Gothic invention , but hath place ...
... perhaps be worth noting . From what hath been already advanced , several con- clufions may be drawn : If , That a mixed government partaking of the known forms received in the schools is by no means of Gothic invention , but hath place ...
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... perhaps never ftarted at all before fuch an incident brought it on the ftage . Not to confent to the enacting of fuch a law , which has no view befides the general good , unless another law fhall at the fame time pafs , with no other ...
... perhaps never ftarted at all before fuch an incident brought it on the ftage . Not to confent to the enacting of fuch a law , which has no view befides the general good , unless another law fhall at the fame time pafs , with no other ...
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... Ephori , there was very little worth recording . All which confe- quences may perhaps be juftly imputed to this degene- racy of Athens . CHAP . CHA P. III . Of the diffenfions between the Patricians 26 CONTESTS AND DISSENSIONS.
... Ephori , there was very little worth recording . All which confe- quences may perhaps be juftly imputed to this degene- racy of Athens . CHAP . CHA P. III . Of the diffenfions between the Patricians 26 CONTESTS AND DISSENSIONS.
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