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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Whether Swift at this time desired the company of Stella as a wife , or a friend , is not certain ; but the reason which she and her companion then gave for their leaving England was , that in Ireland the interest of money was high ...
Whether Swift at this time desired the company of Stella as a wife , or a friend , is not certain ; but the reason which she and her companion then gave for their leaving England was , that in Ireland the interest of money was high ...
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Dean's life , which it has been difficult to fill up : Lord Orrery thinks , with great reason , that he employed this time upon Gulliver's Travels . This work is a moral political romance , in which Swift has exerted the strongest ...
Dean's life , which it has been difficult to fill up : Lord Orrery thinks , with great reason , that he employed this time upon Gulliver's Travels . This work is a moral political romance , in which Swift has exerted the strongest ...
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... which was always accompanied with good nature ; her virtue was founded upon bumanity , and her religion upon reason ; her morals were uniform , but not rigid , and her devotion was habitual , but not oftentatious .
... which was always accompanied with good nature ; her virtue was founded upon bumanity , and her religion upon reason ; her morals were uniform , but not rigid , and her devotion was habitual , but not oftentatious .
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... because , by reason of his known intimacy and connection with Stella above all other women , her character was greatly exposed to unfavourable suspicions , and therefore to be guarded with all possible care and tenderness against ...
... because , by reason of his known intimacy and connection with Stella above all other women , her character was greatly exposed to unfavourable suspicions , and therefore to be guarded with all possible care and tenderness against ...
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Some other instances of fhore intervals of sensibility and reason , after his . madness ended in ftupor , seem to prove , that : his disorder , whatever it was , had not deftroyed , but only suspended the powers of , his mind .
Some other instances of fhore intervals of sensibility and reason , after his . madness ended in ftupor , seem to prove , that : his disorder , whatever it was , had not deftroyed , but only suspended the powers of , his mind .
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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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