THE WORKS OF THE Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 3C. BATHURST, in Fleetstreet, 1760 |
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... in war . He was forced after fome time to leave the Athenians to their own mea- fures upon account of their feditious tempers , which e- • ver continued with them , till the final diffolution ver 20 CONTESTS AND DISSENTIONS.
... in war . He was forced after fome time to leave the Athenians to their own mea- fures upon account of their feditious tempers , which e- • ver continued with them , till the final diffolution ver 20 CONTESTS AND DISSENTIONS.
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... forced to engage his country in the Peloponnefian war , the longest that was known in Greece , and which ended in the ruin of Athens . The fame people having refolved to fubdue Sicily , fent a mighty fleet under the command of Nicias ...
... forced to engage his country in the Peloponnefian war , the longest that was known in Greece , and which ended in the ruin of Athens . The fame people having refolved to fubdue Sicily , fent a mighty fleet under the command of Nicias ...
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... forced to yield to the tribunes and people , thought it their wifeft course to give way also to time ; therefore a decree was made to fend ambaf- fadors to Athens , and to the other Grecian com- monwealths planted in that part of Italy ...
... forced to yield to the tribunes and people , thought it their wifeft course to give way also to time ; therefore a decree was made to fend ambaf- fadors to Athens , and to the other Grecian com- monwealths planted in that part of Italy ...
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... forced Pompey , against his inclinations , upon the neceffity of changing fides , for fear of being for- faken by both ; and of clofing in with the fenate and chief magiftrates , by whom he was chofen general against Cæfar . Thus at ...
... forced Pompey , against his inclinations , upon the neceffity of changing fides , for fear of being for- faken by both ; and of clofing in with the fenate and chief magiftrates , by whom he was chofen general against Cæfar . Thus at ...
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... forced to unite each to its head , under whose conduct or fortune one fide is at first victorious , and at last both are flaves . And to put it past dispute , that this entire fubver- fion of the Roman liberty and conftitution was alto ...
... forced to unite each to its head , under whose conduct or fortune one fide is at first victorious , and at last both are flaves . And to put it past dispute , that this entire fubver- fion of the Roman liberty and conftitution was alto ...
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