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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... 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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It is a great ease to my conscience , that I have written fo elaborate and useful a discourse without one grain of satire intermixed ; which is the føle point wherein I have taken leave to dissent from the famous originals of our age ...
It is a great ease to my conscience , that I have written fo elaborate and useful a discourse without one grain of satire intermixed ; which is the føle point wherein I have taken leave to dissent from the famous originals of our age ...
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Their own consciences will easily inform them , whom I mean . Nor has the world been so negligent a looker - on , as not to observe the continual efforts made by the societies of Gresham * and of Will's t to edify a name and reputation ...
Their own consciences will easily inform them , whom I mean . Nor has the world been so negligent a looker - on , as not to observe the continual efforts made by the societies of Gresham * and of Will's t to edify a name and reputation ...
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... and pajive obedience , and addresses of lives and fortunes and prerogative , and property , and liberty of conscience , and letters to a friend : from an understanding and a confcience thread - bare and ragged with perpetual turning ...
... and pajive obedience , and addresses of lives and fortunes and prerogative , and property , and liberty of conscience , and letters to a friend : from an understanding and a confcience thread - bare and ragged with perpetual turning ...
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... of thoughts and pains to split my treatise into forty sections , and having intreated forty lords of my acquaintance , that they would do me the honour to stand , they all made it a matter of conscience , and sent me their excuses .
... of thoughts and pains to split my treatise into forty sections , and having intreated forty lords of my acquaintance , that they would do me the honour to stand , they all made it a matter of conscience , and sent me their excuses .
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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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