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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... pass , they have fuch a perpetual itch towards it themselves ? To instance only in the answerer already mentioned : It is grievous to see him , in some of his writings , at every turn going out of his way to be wag- gish , to tell us of ...
... pass , they have fuch a perpetual itch towards it themselves ? To instance only in the answerer already mentioned : It is grievous to see him , in some of his writings , at every turn going out of his way to be wag- gish , to tell us of ...
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... pass out of Covent - garden ; and such a one , that is no where intelligible but at Hyde - park corner . Now , though it fometimes tenderly affects me , to confider , that all the towardly passages I shall deli- ver in the following ...
... pass out of Covent - garden ; and such a one , that is no where intelligible but at Hyde - park corner . Now , though it fometimes tenderly affects me , to confider , that all the towardly passages I shall deli- ver in the following ...
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... pass in the common conversations of court and town , is modelled exactly after the manner peculiar to our fociety . I confefs to have been fomewhat liberal in the business of titles * , having observed the humour of multiplying them to ...
... pass in the common conversations of court and town , is modelled exactly after the manner peculiar to our fociety . I confefs to have been fomewhat liberal in the business of titles * , having observed the humour of multiplying them to ...
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... pass , he thought fit to lend the whole business another turn , and ' to dress up neceflity into a virtue . Therefore , after as * The galleries over the piazzas in the Royal Exchange were 1 : many of the fox's arguments * as he. women ...
... pass , he thought fit to lend the whole business another turn , and ' to dress up neceflity into a virtue . Therefore , after as * The galleries over the piazzas in the Royal Exchange were 1 : many of the fox's arguments * as he. women ...
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... pass , that none of thefe great prescribers do ever fail providing themselves and their notions with a number of implicit disciples . And , I think , the rea- fon is easy to be assigned : for there is a peculiar string in the harmony of ...
... pass , that none of thefe great prescribers do ever fail providing themselves and their notions with a number of implicit disciples . And , I think , the rea- fon is easy to be assigned : for there is a peculiar string in the harmony of ...
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againſt almoſt alſo ancient anſwer aſſiſtance becauſe beſides beſt buſineſs cauſe Chriſtianity church clergy cloſe confcience conſequence conſtitution courſe cuſtom Dean defire deſign diſcourſe diſpoſed eaſy eſpecially eſtabliſhed expoſe faid falſe fame fatire fide fince firſt fome foon fuch fure hath Hawkef honour houſe inſtance intereſt itſelf JONATHAN SWIFT juſt laſt learned leaſt leſs Lord manifeſt mankind modern moſt muſt nature neceſſary never obſerved occafion Orrery paſs paſſages perſon Peter Pindar pleaſe poſſible preſent preſerve prince propoſed publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reader reaſon refolved religion reſpect reſt ſaid ſame ſay ſcheme ſeems ſenſe ſerve ſervice ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould ſince Sir William Temple ſmall ſome ſometimes ſpeak ſpirit ſtand ſtate ſtation ſtill ſtrength ſtrong ſtyle ſubject ſuch ſuppoſe Swift ſyſtem themſelves ther theſe things thoſe thought tion treatiſe underſtanding univerſal uſe uſual utmoſt wherein whole whoſe Wotton writers