The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Page xv
... last admitted fpeciali gratia , which is there confidered as the highest degree of reproach and difhonour . It is ( fays Lord Orrery ) a kind of difho- nourable degree ; and the record of it , notwithstanding Dr Swift's prefent ...
... last admitted fpeciali gratia , which is there confidered as the highest degree of reproach and difhonour . It is ( fays Lord Orrery ) a kind of difho- nourable degree ; and the record of it , notwithstanding Dr Swift's prefent ...
Page xxix
... last years of Q. Anne's reign , he fearce ever loft himself , or grew giddy by the plenitude of power , and the exalted station of frequently appearing in the confidence and favour of the reigning minifter . He may have been carried ...
... last years of Q. Anne's reign , he fearce ever loft himself , or grew giddy by the plenitude of power , and the exalted station of frequently appearing in the confidence and favour of the reigning minifter . He may have been carried ...
Page xxxi
... last miniftry , because he would not go certain lengths which they would have had Abp Sharpe reprefented him as a perfon who was not a Chri- ftian , and the great lady fupported the afperfion . Swift kept him- felf indeed within fome ...
... last miniftry , because he would not go certain lengths which they would have had Abp Sharpe reprefented him as a perfon who was not a Chri- ftian , and the great lady fupported the afperfion . Swift kept him- felf indeed within fome ...
Page xxxiii
... last ministry , " [ vol . 4. p . 212. ] ; a fentiment which , in his political wisdom , that great minifter both greedily and fear . fully imbibed . And accordingly , when Swift waited upon him a- bout the first fruits and twentieth ...
... last ministry , " [ vol . 4. p . 212. ] ; a fentiment which , in his political wisdom , that great minifter both greedily and fear . fully imbibed . And accordingly , when Swift waited upon him a- bout the first fruits and twentieth ...
Page xxxv
... last words have an eye to his writing the Examiner ; which he kept as a profound fecret from all the world , except the printer and the miniftry . Prior was fufpected for being the author of the Examiner , fee number 26. 31. [ in vol ...
... last words have an eye to his writing the Examiner ; which he kept as a profound fecret from all the world , except the printer and the miniftry . Prior was fufpected for being the author of the Examiner , fee number 26. 31. [ in vol ...
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