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Some o- miffions in it are supplied , and a variety of notes added , containing fuch anecdotes , or different relations of the fame fact as were worth preferving . The whole of the sketch compofed by the Doctor himself , fo far as ...
Some o- miffions in it are supplied , and a variety of notes added , containing fuch anecdotes , or different relations of the fame fact as were worth preferving . The whole of the sketch compofed by the Doctor himself , fo far as ...
Page vii
です ONE of the younger branches from the fame ftem was Sir Edward Swift , who diftinguifhed himself by his at- tachment to the royal caufe in the war between King Charles I. and his parliament , from whom there is no defcendent of the ...
です ONE of the younger branches from the fame ftem was Sir Edward Swift , who diftinguifhed himself by his at- tachment to the royal caufe in the war between King Charles I. and his parliament , from whom there is no defcendent of the ...
Page viii
He was plundered more than thirty times by the parliament's army , was ejected from his church - livings , his eftate was fequettered , and he was himself thrown into prifon . His eftate however was afterwards recovered , and part of it ...
He was plundered more than thirty times by the parliament's army , was ejected from his church - livings , his eftate was fequettered , and he was himself thrown into prifon . His eftate however was afterwards recovered , and part of it ...
Page xi
I am not quite certain , that Swift himself did not acquiefce in the calumny . Perhaps , like Alexander , he thought the natural fon of Jupiter would appear greater than the legitimate fon of Philip . 0. let .
I am not quite certain , that Swift himself did not acquiefce in the calumny . Perhaps , like Alexander , he thought the natural fon of Jupiter would appear greater than the legitimate fon of Philip . 0. let .
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mic ftudy , to which he was not by nature much inclined , and apply himself wholly to books of history and poetry ; by which he could , without intellectual labour , fill his mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the fense ...
mic ftudy , to which he was not by nature much inclined , and apply himself wholly to books of history and poetry ; by which he could , without intellectual labour , fill his mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the fense ...
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