The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1766 |
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... writing , which may prejudice another's fortune , the law punishes the offender with the lofs of his cars ; but has inflicted no adequate penalty for fuch as prejudice another's re- putation in doing the fame thing in print ; though all ...
... writing , which may prejudice another's fortune , the law punishes the offender with the lofs of his cars ; but has inflicted no adequate penalty for fuch as prejudice another's re- putation in doing the fame thing in print ; though all ...
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... write below himself ; either his fubject not proving fo fruitful , or fitted for him , as he at firft imagined ; or his health , or his humour , or the prefent difpolition of his mind , unqualifying him at that juncture : however , if ...
... write below himself ; either his fubject not proving fo fruitful , or fitted for him , as he at firft imagined ; or his health , or his humour , or the prefent difpolition of his mind , unqualifying him at that juncture : however , if ...
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... writer is in poffeffion of , the more of fuch traffi he bear to have tacked to him . Thus it is appa- rently the editor's intereft to infert what the author's judgment had rejected ; and care is always taken to in- terfperfe thefe ...
... writer is in poffeffion of , the more of fuch traffi he bear to have tacked to him . Thus it is appa- rently the editor's intereft to infert what the author's judgment had rejected ; and care is always taken to in- terfperfe thefe ...
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... writing in , and relate only fuch diffenfions in Greece and Rome , between the nobles and commons , with the confequen . ces of thein , wherein the latter were the aggreffors . I fhall begin with Greece , where my obfervations shall be ...
... writing in , and relate only fuch diffenfions in Greece and Rome , between the nobles and commons , with the confequen . ces of thein , wherein the latter were the aggreffors . I fhall begin with Greece , where my obfervations shall be ...
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... writer Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus , whofe hiftory , through the injury of time ,. reaches no farther than to the beginning of the fourth century after the building of Roine . The reft Ifhall fupply from other authors ; though I do not ...
... writer Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus , whofe hiftory , through the injury of time ,. reaches no farther than to the beginning of the fourth century after the building of Roine . The reft Ifhall fupply from other authors ; though I do not ...
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