The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Jonathan Swift. DR JONATHAN SWIFT was defcended from a younger branch of an antient family of that name in Yorkshire . But the account of his family fhall be as fhort as pof- ble ; fince , ( as Lord Orrery obferves ) , though his an ...
Jonathan Swift. DR JONATHAN SWIFT was defcended from a younger branch of an antient family of that name in Yorkshire . But the account of his family fhall be as fhort as pof- ble ; fince , ( as Lord Orrery obferves ) , though his an ...
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... antient family in Huntingdonshire , fifter to the father of the famous John Dryden the poet ; by whom he had ten fons and four daughters . He died in 1658 ; and of his fons , fix survived him , Godwin , Tho- mas , Dryden , William ...
... antient family in Huntingdonshire , fifter to the father of the famous John Dryden the poet ; by whom he had ten fons and four daughters . He died in 1658 ; and of his fons , fix survived him , Godwin , Tho- mas , Dryden , William ...
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... antient law fhould be revived , by which our parliaments were made annual . He abominated the political scheme of fetting up a moneyed interest in oppofition to the land- ed ; and was an enemy to temporary fufpenfions of the Habeas ...
... antient law fhould be revived , by which our parliaments were made annual . He abominated the political scheme of fetting up a moneyed interest in oppofition to the land- ed ; and was an enemy to temporary fufpenfions of the Habeas ...
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... antient and modern learning : from the annotation are felected the notes figned W. Wotton ; thus Wotton appears bufied to illuftrate a work , which he laboured to condemn , and adds force to a fatire pointed against himself ; as ...
... antient and modern learning : from the annotation are felected the notes figned W. Wotton ; thus Wotton appears bufied to illuftrate a work , which he laboured to condemn , and adds force to a fatire pointed against himself ; as ...
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... antient author , why dedications , and other bundles of flattery , run all upon ftale mufty topics , without the smallest tincture of any thing new ; not only to the torment and naufeating of the chriftian reader , but , if not fuddenly ...
... antient author , why dedications , and other bundles of flattery , run all upon ftale mufty topics , without the smallest tincture of any thing new ; not only to the torment and naufeating of the chriftian reader , but , if not fuddenly ...
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