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Page vii
DR JONATHAN SWIFT was descended from a younger branch of an antient family of that name in Yorkshire . But the account of his family shall be as short as pofble ; fince , ( as Lord Orrery observes ) , though his an cestors were persons ...
DR JONATHAN SWIFT was descended from a younger branch of an antient family of that name in Yorkshire . But the account of his family shall be as short as pofble ; fince , ( as Lord Orrery observes ) , though his an cestors were persons ...
Page viii
... Deane Swift , Efq ; Tass Mr Thomas Swift married Mrs Elisabeth Dryden , of an antient family in Huntingdonshire , fifter to the father of the famous John Dryden the poet ; by whom he had ten sons and four daughters .
... Deane Swift , Efq ; Tass Mr Thomas Swift married Mrs Elisabeth Dryden , of an antient family in Huntingdonshire , fifter to the father of the famous John Dryden the poet ; by whom he had ten sons and four daughters .
Page xlix
... a mortal antipathy against standing armies in times of peace ; and was of opinion , that our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation , till the antient law fhould be revived , by which our parliaments were made annual .
... a mortal antipathy against standing armies in times of peace ; and was of opinion , that our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation , till the antient law fhould be revived , by which our parliaments were made annual .
Page cxxv
THIS tu OT 4 Ww EOS * Wotton's defence of his reflections upon antient and modern learning : from the annotation are fèlected the notes figned W. Wotton ; thus Wotton appears busied to illustrate a work , which he laboured to condemn ...
THIS tu OT 4 Ww EOS * Wotton's defence of his reflections upon antient and modern learning : from the annotation are fèlected the notes figned W. Wotton ; thus Wotton appears busied to illustrate a work , which he laboured to condemn ...
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There is a problem in an antient author , why dedications , and other bundles of flattery , run all upon ftale musty topics , without the smallest tincture of any thing new ; not only to the torment and nauseating of the christian ...
There is a problem in an antient author , why dedications , and other bundles of flattery , run all upon ftale musty topics , without the smallest tincture of any thing new ; not only to the torment and nauseating of the christian ...
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