The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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... necessary to the conclufion at which I aim . THE first piece I have handled , is that of Tom Thumb , whofe author was a Pythagorean philofopher . This dark treatise contains the whole scheme of the Metempsychosis , deducing the progrefs ...
... necessary to the conclufion at which I aim . THE first piece I have handled , is that of Tom Thumb , whofe author was a Pythagorean philofopher . This dark treatise contains the whole scheme of the Metempsychosis , deducing the progrefs ...
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... necessary titles to reputation and preferment ; and if vice and infidelity were not only loaden with infamy , but made the infal- lible ruin of all mens pretenfions ; our duty , by be- coming our intereft , would take root in our ...
... necessary titles to reputation and preferment ; and if vice and infidelity were not only loaden with infamy , but made the infal- lible ruin of all mens pretenfions ; our duty , by be- coming our intereft , would take root in our ...
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... necessary , and that none yet applied hath been effectual ; which is a fufficient excufe for any man who wishes well to his country , to offer his thoughts , when he can have no other end in view but the public good . The prefent Queen ...
... necessary , and that none yet applied hath been effectual ; which is a fufficient excufe for any man who wishes well to his country , to offer his thoughts , when he can have no other end in view but the public good . The prefent Queen ...
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... necessary in any station , is confeffed even by those who tell us that all religion was invented by cunning men in order to keep the world in awe . For if religion , by the confeffion of its adver- faries , be neceffary toward the well ...
... necessary in any station , is confeffed even by those who tell us that all religion was invented by cunning men in order to keep the world in awe . For if religion , by the confeffion of its adver- faries , be neceffary toward the well ...
Page 294
... necessary , nor infallible figns of a true and unfeigned repentance : not neceffary , because some- times , and in fome perfons , the inward grief and an- guifh of the mind may be too big to be expreffed by fo little a thing as a tear ...
... necessary , nor infallible figns of a true and unfeigned repentance : not neceffary , because some- times , and in fome perfons , the inward grief and an- guifh of the mind may be too big to be expreffed by fo little a thing as a tear ...
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