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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After which is given Lord Orrery's account of Swift's death , and his Lordship's dissertation on lunacy and idiotism , occafioned by the melancholy situation of the Dean's understanding , some years before his death ; not inserted in ...
After which is given Lord Orrery's account of Swift's death , and his Lordship's dissertation on lunacy and idiotism , occafioned by the melancholy situation of the Dean's understanding , some years before his death ; not inserted in ...
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From this tine his memory was perceived gradually to decline , and his passions to pervert his understanding ; and in 1741 , he was so very bad , as to be utterly incapable of conversation . Strangers were not permitted to approach him ...
From this tine his memory was perceived gradually to decline , and his passions to pervert his understanding ; and in 1741 , he was so very bad , as to be utterly incapable of conversation . Strangers were not permitted to approach him ...
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What that was , I have already told ; and I believe there is not a person in England who can understand that book , that ever imagined it to have been any thing else , but to expose the abuses and core ruptions in learning and religion ...
What that was , I have already told ; and I believe there is not a person in England who can understand that book , that ever imagined it to have been any thing else , but to expose the abuses and core ruptions in learning and religion ...
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... with no small hazard and weariness to my person , from a prodigious number of dark , winding stairs ; but found them all in the same story , both of your Lordship and themselves . Now , your Lordship is to understand ...
... with no small hazard and weariness to my person , from a prodigious number of dark , winding stairs ; but found them all in the same story , both of your Lordship and themselves . Now , your Lordship is to understand ...
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Secondly , I do not well understand the justice of this proceeding ; because I observe many of these polite prefaces to be not only from the fame hand , but from those who are most voluminous in their feveral productions .
Secondly , I do not well understand the justice of this proceeding ; because I observe many of these polite prefaces to be not only from the fame hand , but from those who are most voluminous in their feveral productions .
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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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