The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Page xlvii
... subject's favour was " worth it . I told him , that I defigned to let my Lord Keeper and Mr Harley know the fame thing , " that they may ufe me accordingly . " 66 THE Secretary received the reproof like a friend , as it was given , and ...
... subject's favour was " worth it . I told him , that I defigned to let my Lord Keeper and Mr Harley know the fame thing , " that they may ufe me accordingly . " 66 THE Secretary received the reproof like a friend , as it was given , and ...
Page xiv
... subject ; he never thought of it afterwards ; and it was a fufficient furprize to fee it pieced up together , wholly out of the method and fcheme he had intended ; for it was the ground - work of a much larger difcourfe , and he was ...
... subject ; he never thought of it afterwards ; and it was a fufficient furprize to fee it pieced up together , wholly out of the method and fcheme he had intended ; for it was the ground - work of a much larger difcourfe , and he was ...
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... subject . I know very well , that when your Highnefs fhall come to riper years , and have gone thro ' the learning of an- tiquity , you will be too curious to neglect inquiring into the authors of the very age before you . And to think ...
... subject . I know very well , that when your Highnefs fhall come to riper years , and have gone thro ' the learning of an- tiquity , you will be too curious to neglect inquiring into the authors of the very age before you . And to think ...
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... subject ; because we are ex- treme unwilling to inflame a controverfy , whose continu- ance may be fo fatal to the interefts of us all ; defiring much rather that things be amicably compofed . And we fhall fo far advance on our fide ...
... subject ; because we are ex- treme unwilling to inflame a controverfy , whose continu- ance may be fo fatal to the interefts of us all ; defiring much rather that things be amicably compofed . And we fhall fo far advance on our fide ...
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... subject , that a penetrating reader will eafily difcover whatever hath been written fince upon that difpute , to be little more than repetition . An abstract of this treatife hath been lately published by a worthy member of our fociety ...
... subject , that a penetrating reader will eafily difcover whatever hath been written fince upon that difpute , to be little more than repetition . An abstract of this treatife hath been lately published by a worthy member of our fociety ...
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