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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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She was of a generous and hospitable nature , very exact in all the duties of religion , attended the public worship ge- nerally twice a day , was a very early rifer , and was always dreffed for the whole day at about fix o'clock in the ...
She was of a generous and hospitable nature , very exact in all the duties of religion , attended the public worship ge- nerally twice a day , was a very early rifer , and was always dreffed for the whole day at about fix o'clock in the ...
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But from that time for- ward , he declared that he became a better œconomist , and never was without fome little money in his pocket . D. S. p . 94. 55 . mic ftudy , to which he was not by nature xii An ACCOUNT OF.
But from that time for- ward , he declared that he became a better œconomist , and never was without fome little money in his pocket . D. S. p . 94. 55 . mic ftudy , to which he was not by nature xii An ACCOUNT OF.
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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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The vulgar dialect was not only a fund of humour for him , but I verily believe was acceptable to his nature ; otherwife I know not how to account for the many fil- thy ideas and indecent expreffions ( I mean indecent in point of ...
The vulgar dialect was not only a fund of humour for him , but I verily believe was acceptable to his nature ; otherwife I know not how to account for the many fil- thy ideas and indecent expreffions ( I mean indecent in point of ...
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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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