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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Nor so far at least , if not something farther , we think , may be . answered , and without absurdity too . “ did not inarry her sooner , " we say , because his original intention was not to marry her at all : he never ...
Nor so far at least , if not something farther , we think , may be . answered , and without absurdity too . “ did not inarry her sooner , " we say , because his original intention was not to marry her at all : he never ...
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But he desires to be answerable no farther than he is guilty ; and that his faults may not be multiplied by the ignorant , the unnatural , and charitable applications of those who have neither candor to fuppofe good meanings ...
But he desires to be answerable no farther than he is guilty ; and that his faults may not be multiplied by the ignorant , the unnatural , and charitable applications of those who have neither candor to fuppofe good meanings ...
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TE ptics * IV hinder them from farther spreading . Besides , though it was not intended for their perufal , it rallies nothing but what they preach against . It contains nothing to provoke them by the least fcurrility upon their persons ...
TE ptics * IV hinder them from farther spreading . Besides , though it was not intended for their perufal , it rallies nothing but what they preach against . It contains nothing to provoke them by the least fcurrility upon their persons ...
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He thinks it no fair proceeding , that any person should offer determinately to fix a name upon the author of this discourse , who hath all along concealed himself from most of bis nearest friends : yet several have gone a farther Itep ...
He thinks it no fair proceeding , that any person should offer determinately to fix a name upon the author of this discourse , who hath all along concealed himself from most of bis nearest friends : yet several have gone a farther Itep ...
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This answerer has been pleased to find fault with about a dozen passages , which the author will not be at the trouble of defending , farther than by assuring the reader , that , for the greater part , the reflecter is entirely mistaken ...
This answerer has been pleased to find fault with about a dozen passages , which the author will not be at the trouble of defending , farther than by assuring the reader , that , for the greater part , the reflecter is entirely mistaken ...
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