The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinC. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Hinton, J. Dodsley, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, and W. Bowyer, 1766 |
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Gentlemen , my life is in the hands of God , and , whether it may be cut off by treachery , or open violence , or by the common way of other men , as long as it continues , I shall ever bear a grateful memory for this favour you have ...
Gentlemen , my life is in the hands of God , and , whether it may be cut off by treachery , or open violence , or by the common way of other men , as long as it continues , I shall ever bear a grateful memory for this favour you have ...
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... it may be thought unnecessary to take any notice of such treatises as have been written against the ensuing discourse ; which are already sunk into waste paper and oblivion , after the usual fate of common anfwerers to books which ...
... it may be thought unnecessary to take any notice of such treatises as have been written against the ensuing discourse ; which are already sunk into waste paper and oblivion , after the usual fate of common anfwerers to books which ...
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... so the Earl of Orrery's remarks will be read with delight , when the dissertation he exposes will neither be fought nor found to But these are no enterprises for common hands , nor to be hoped for above once or twice în an age .
... so the Earl of Orrery's remarks will be read with delight , when the dissertation he exposes will neither be fought nor found to But these are no enterprises for common hands , nor to be hoped for above once or twice în an age .
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... and candor , and evenness of temper in all scenes of life ; of that great discernment in discovering , and readiness in favouring deserving men ; with forty other common topics ; confess , I have neither conscience , nor countenance ...
... and candor , and evenness of temper in all scenes of life ; of that great discernment in discovering , and readiness in favouring deserving men ; with forty other common topics ; confess , I have neither conscience , nor countenance ...
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There are certain common privileges of a writer , the benefit whereof , I hope , there will be no reason to doubt ; particularly , that , where I am not understood , it shall be concluded , that something very useful and profound is ...
There are certain common privileges of a writer , the benefit whereof , I hope , there will be no reason to doubt ; particularly , that , where I am not understood , it shall be concluded , that something very useful and profound is ...
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| Title | The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin Volume 1 of The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Hinton, J. Dodsley, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, and W. Bowyer, 1766 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 28 Sep 2018 |
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