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There is a pleasure in seeing human nature displayed in a beautiful , but fingular and uncommon view . We are fond of being introduced into a fort of acquaintance with fuch persons , which may compensate the loss of our not having been ...
There is a pleasure in seeing human nature displayed in a beautiful , but fingular and uncommon view . We are fond of being introduced into a fort of acquaintance with fuch persons , which may compensate the loss of our not having been ...
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His imagination was always alive , and perhaps beyond all others he had a power to conciliate his ideas to the several capacities of all human race , and at the fame time catch entertainment to himself from every . species of ...
His imagination was always alive , and perhaps beyond all others he had a power to conciliate his ideas to the several capacities of all human race , and at the fame time catch entertainment to himself from every . species of ...
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her elf lide e ; a he and aly Ery fo treatment which he received after the death of ' Q. Anne , was almoft a füfficient reason to justify fi contempt , if not an abhorrence of the human race . He had bravely withstned all hoftile ...
her elf lide e ; a he and aly Ery fo treatment which he received after the death of ' Q. Anne , was almoft a füfficient reason to justify fi contempt , if not an abhorrence of the human race . He had bravely withstned all hoftile ...
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Her virtue was founded upon humanity , and her religion upon reason . Her morals were uniform , but not rigid ; and her devotion was habitual , but not oftentatious . Why the Dean did not fooner marry this moft excel - 1 lent person why ...
Her virtue was founded upon humanity , and her religion upon reason . Her morals were uniform , but not rigid ; and her devotion was habitual , but not oftentatious . Why the Dean did not fooner marry this moft excel - 1 lent person why ...
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... whose conversation , even in his latter days , after the vigour and Sprightliness of his genius had greatly fübfided , had somewhat in it strangely uncommon , which was not to be remarked in the reft of human kind . D. S. p .
... whose conversation , even in his latter days , after the vigour and Sprightliness of his genius had greatly fübfided , had somewhat in it strangely uncommon , which was not to be remarked in the reft of human kind . D. S. p .
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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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