The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Page 69
... usually directs it there . But I here think fit to lay hold on that great and honourable privilege of being the laft writer ; I claim an abfolute authority in right , as the fresheft modern , which gives me a defpotic power over all ...
... usually directs it there . But I here think fit to lay hold on that great and honourable privilege of being the laft writer ; I claim an abfolute authority in right , as the fresheft modern , which gives me a defpotic power over all ...
Page 102
... usually an- nexed to his office , will be very hardly perfuaded to believe . IT SECT . X. A FURTHER DIGRESSION * . T is an unanfwerable argument of a very refined age , the wonderful civilities that have paffed of late years between the ...
... usually an- nexed to his office , will be very hardly perfuaded to believe . IT SECT . X. A FURTHER DIGRESSION * . T is an unanfwerable argument of a very refined age , the wonderful civilities that have paffed of late years between the ...
Page 104
... usually paffes under the name of The author of the first . I eafily forefee , that , as foon as I lay down my pen , this nimble operator will have ftole it , and treat me as inhumanely as he hath already done Dr. Blre L- ge , and many ...
... usually paffes under the name of The author of the first . I eafily forefee , that , as foon as I lay down my pen , this nimble operator will have ftole it , and treat me as inhumanely as he hath already done Dr. Blre L- ge , and many ...
Page 110
... usually annexed . Neither was it poffible for the united rhetoric of man- kind to prevail with him to make himself clean again ; because , having confulted the will upon this emergency , he met with a paffage near the bottom ( whether ...
... usually annexed . Neither was it poffible for the united rhetoric of man- kind to prevail with him to make himself clean again ; because , having confulted the will upon this emergency , he met with a paffage near the bottom ( whether ...
Page 180
... outward mien ; which is usually fuppofed to be done upon confiderations purely fpiritual , without any carnal regards at all . But I have reason to think , the fex hath certain characteristics , by which think 180 A FRAGMENT .
... outward mien ; which is usually fuppofed to be done upon confiderations purely fpiritual , without any carnal regards at all . But I have reason to think , the fex hath certain characteristics , by which think 180 A FRAGMENT .
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