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Page xxix
... the conftant aim of his polities , and the immediate fubject of his thoughts and writings . O let - 4- however write any political pamphlet from the year 1701 * THE LIFE OF DR SWIFT . xxix.
... the conftant aim of his polities , and the immediate fubject of his thoughts and writings . O let - 4- however write any political pamphlet from the year 1701 * THE LIFE OF DR SWIFT . xxix.
Page xlvii
... and not put me in pain to guess " by the change or coldnefs of his countenance or be- " haviour ; for it was what I would hardly bear from a " crowned head , and I thought no fubject's favour was " worth it .
... and not put me in pain to guess " by the change or coldnefs of his countenance or be- " haviour ; for it was what I would hardly bear from a " crowned head , and I thought no fubject's favour was " worth it .
Page xlix
THAT he was not at any time a bigot to party , and that he did not indifcriminately transfer his refentments from principles to perfons , was fo evident by his conduct , that it was a ufual fubject of raillery towards him among the ...
THAT he was not at any time a bigot to party , and that he did not indifcriminately transfer his refentments from principles to perfons , was fo evident by his conduct , that it was a ufual fubject of raillery towards him among the ...
Page lxxiii
... he thought no more upon the fubject of wedlock than he had done for the preceding fourteen years ; her fpirits might have become dejected , by her frequent revolving in her mind the oddness of her fituation .
... he thought no more upon the fubject of wedlock than he had done for the preceding fourteen years ; her fpirits might have become dejected , by her frequent revolving in her mind the oddness of her fituation .
Page xc
THERE are fome infirmities to which the mind as well as the body naturally becomes fubject in the decline of life . The defire of accumulating wealth almost always increases in proportion as it becomes more abfurd ; and thofe are most ...
THERE are fome infirmities to which the mind as well as the body naturally becomes fubject in the decline of life . The defire of accumulating wealth almost always increases in proportion as it becomes more abfurd ; and thofe are most ...
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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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