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There is a pleasure in feeing human nature displayed in a beautiful , but fingular and uncommon view . We are fond of being introduced into a fort of acquaintance with fuch perfons , which may compenfate the lofs of our not having been ...
There is a pleasure in feeing human nature displayed in a beautiful , but fingular and uncommon view . We are fond of being introduced into a fort of acquaintance with fuch perfons , which may compenfate the lofs of our not having been ...
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His imagination was al- ways alive , and perhaps beyond all others he had a power to conci- liate his ideas to the feveral capacities of all human race , and at the fame time catch entertainment to himself from every species of ...
His imagination was al- ways alive , and perhaps beyond all others he had a power to conci- liate his ideas to the feveral capacities of all human race , and at the fame time catch entertainment to himself from every species of ...
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However , it may be obferyed , that the treatment which he received after the death of Q. Anne , was almost 看 a fufficient reafon to justify contempt , if not an abhorrence , of the human race . He had bravely withstood all hoftile ...
However , it may be obferyed , that the treatment which he received after the death of Q. Anne , was almost 看 a fufficient reafon to justify contempt , if not an abhorrence , of the human race . He had bravely withstood all hoftile ...
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Her vir- tue was founded upon humanity , and her religion upon reafon . Her morals were uniform , but not rigid ; and · her devotion was habitual , but not offentatious . WHY the Dean did not fooner marry this most excel- lent perfon ...
Her vir- tue was founded upon humanity , and her religion upon reafon . Her morals were uniform , but not rigid ; and · her devotion was habitual , but not offentatious . WHY the Dean did not fooner marry this most excel- lent perfon ...
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From the gifts of nature he had great powers , and from the imperfection of humanity he had many failings . I always confidered him as an abftract and brief chronicle of the times ; no man being better acquaint- ed with human nature ...
From the gifts of nature he had great powers , and from the imperfection of humanity he had many failings . I always confidered him as an abftract and brief chronicle of the times ; no man being better acquaint- ed with human nature ...
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| Title | The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift .. Volume 1 of The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Publisher | G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 4 May 2017 |
| Length | 2984 pages |
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