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Page vii
His father William Swift , rector of St Andrew's in Canterbury , married the heiress of Philpot ; who con- trived to keep her eftate , which was very confider- able , in her own hands . She is faid to have been ex- tremely capricious ...
His father William Swift , rector of St Andrew's in Canterbury , married the heiress of Philpot ; who con- trived to keep her eftate , which was very confider- able , in her own hands . She is faid to have been ex- tremely capricious ...
Page xxviii
... that he might have a night's time to confider of it . And the next morning , contrary to expectation , he agreed to the terms . Swift , never at a lofs for fome uncommon flight of imagination , Infifted further , that he fhould live ...
... that he might have a night's time to confider of it . And the next morning , contrary to expectation , he agreed to the terms . Swift , never at a lofs for fome uncommon flight of imagination , Infifted further , that he fhould live ...
Page liii
37 THERE is a time when every man is ftruck with a fenfe of his mortality , and feels the force of a truth to which he has confented merely from cuftom , without confider- ing its certainty or importance , This time feldom hap- pens in ...
37 THERE is a time when every man is ftruck with a fenfe of his mortality , and feels the force of a truth to which he has confented merely from cuftom , without confider- ing its certainty or importance , This time feldom hap- pens in ...
Page liv
when every object has the force of novelty , and every defire of pleasure receives auxiliar ftrength from curiofi- ty : but after the first heat of the race , when we ftop to recover from our fatigue , we naturally confider the ground ...
when every object has the force of novelty , and every defire of pleasure receives auxiliar ftrength from curiofi- ty : but after the first heat of the race , when we ftop to recover from our fatigue , we naturally confider the ground ...
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IT is alfo certain , that , notwithstanding the apparent aufterity of his temper , he did not confider his fervants as poor flaves , to whofe fervice he had a right , in confi- deration merely of his money , and owed them no reci- ...
IT is alfo certain , that , notwithstanding the apparent aufterity of his temper , he did not confider his fervants as poor flaves , to whofe fervice he had a right , in confi- deration merely of his money , and owed them no reci- ...
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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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