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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Page xli
... telling a ftory , his fentences were- fhort and perfpicuous , his obfervations pier-- cing ; and though in the latter part of his life he was very apt to tell his ftories too . often , yet his wit , as well as his virtues , was always ...
... telling a ftory , his fentences were- fhort and perfpicuous , his obfervations pier-- cing ; and though in the latter part of his life he was very apt to tell his ftories too . often , yet his wit , as well as his virtues , was always ...
Page lii
... tell you , " replied the Dean , when- " ever I fee a number of agreeable qualities in any per " fon , I am always fure they have bad ones fufficient " to poize the fcale . " Mrs. Pilkington bowed , and tolds him , he did her great ...
... tell you , " replied the Dean , when- " ever I fee a number of agreeable qualities in any per " fon , I am always fure they have bad ones fufficient " to poize the fcale . " Mrs. Pilkington bowed , and tolds him , he did her great ...
Page liii
... tell * me your wife's faults ; but I have found her out to " be a d - n'd infolent , proud , unmannerly flut . " " What has the done now ? " faid Mr. Pilkington . " Done , " faid the Dean ; why nothing , but fat " there quietly , and ...
... tell * me your wife's faults ; but I have found her out to " be a d - n'd infolent , proud , unmannerly flut . " " What has the done now ? " faid Mr. Pilkington . " Done , " faid the Dean ; why nothing , but fat " there quietly , and ...
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... tell us , ought not to be ridiculed ; and they tell us truth : yet furely the corruptions in it may ; for we are taught by the triteft maxim in the world , that religion being the beft of things , its corruptions are likely to be the ...
... tell us , ought not to be ridiculed ; and they tell us truth : yet furely the corruptions in it may ; for we are taught by the triteft maxim in the world , that religion being the beft of things , its corruptions are likely to be the ...
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... tell us of a cow that pricked up her tail ; and in his answer to this difcourfe , he says , It is all a farce and a ... telling his name ; wherein 1 wherein the world , with all its wife conjectures The Author's Apology . 13.
... tell us of a cow that pricked up her tail ; and in his answer to this difcourfe , he says , It is all a farce and a ... telling his name ; wherein 1 wherein the world , with all its wife conjectures The Author's Apology . 13.
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