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IT happened , by whatever accident , that Jonathan was not fuckled by his mother , but by a nurfe , who was a native of Whitehaven : and when he was about a year old , her affection for him was become so strong , that finding it ...
IT happened , by whatever accident , that Jonathan was not fuckled by his mother , but by a nurfe , who was a native of Whitehaven : and when he was about a year old , her affection for him was become so strong , that finding it ...
Page xvii
... should , while he was sporting with this incident in the gaiety of his heart , pretend a mistake which never happened , or that what he meant as a jeft upon the univerfity , fhould be feriously remembered as an event of his life .
... should , while he was sporting with this incident in the gaiety of his heart , pretend a mistake which never happened , or that what he meant as a jeft upon the univerfity , fhould be feriously remembered as an event of his life .
Page xviii
The fact there- fore which , Lord Orrey fays , was immediately construed to fa vour an opinion that Swift was Sir William's natural fon , appears never to have happened . Hawkef . 1 Swift tranflated for Sir William his letters out of ...
The fact there- fore which , Lord Orrey fays , was immediately construed to fa vour an opinion that Swift was Sir William's natural fon , appears never to have happened . Hawkef . 1 Swift tranflated for Sir William his letters out of ...
Page xxi
... yet the employment to which he was invited would have been fecure . But it happened , that after he had acted as fecretary during the whole journey to Dublin , one Bufh found means to infinuate to Lord Berkeley , that the ...
... yet the employment to which he was invited would have been fecure . But it happened , that after he had acted as fecretary during the whole journey to Dublin , one Bufh found means to infinuate to Lord Berkeley , that the ...
Page xxii
It happened , that the deanery of Derry be- came vacant , and it was the Earl of Berkeley's turn to difpofe of it . Yet whatever atonement was due to Swift for his Lordship's late breach of engagement , the fecretary having received a ...
It happened , that the deanery of Derry be- came vacant , and it was the Earl of Berkeley's turn to difpofe of it . Yet whatever atonement was due to Swift for his Lordship's late breach of engagement , the fecretary having received a ...
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