THE WORKS OF THE Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 3C. BATHURST, in Fleetstreet, 1760 |
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Page 18
... greatest incidents that may happen to alter the cafe : to count it mean , and below the dignity of a houfe , to quit a profecution ; to refolve up- on a conclufion before it is poffible to be apprised of the premifes : to act thus , I ...
... greatest incidents that may happen to alter the cafe : to count it mean , and below the dignity of a houfe , to quit a profecution ; to refolve up- on a conclufion before it is poffible to be apprised of the premifes : to act thus , I ...
Page 26
... greatest enemy . Mean while the Athenians before Sicily , by the death of one commander , and the superstition , weakness , and perfect ill conduct of the other , were utterly destroyed , the whole fleet taken , and a miserable ...
... greatest enemy . Mean while the Athenians before Sicily , by the death of one commander , and the superstition , weakness , and perfect ill conduct of the other , were utterly destroyed , the whole fleet taken , and a miserable ...
Page 29
... greatest monarch of the world at that time to the terms of an honourable peace , by which his country was preferved . I shall conclude my remarks upon Athens with the character given us of that people by Polybius . About + Lib . 18 ...
... greatest monarch of the world at that time to the terms of an honourable peace , by which his country was preferved . I shall conclude my remarks upon Athens with the character given us of that people by Polybius . About + Lib . 18 ...
Page 38
... greatest vigour by the power remaining in the fenate : yet this was between two and three hundred years after the period of Dio- nyfius ends with ; in which time the commons had made feveral further acquifitions . This however muft be ...
... greatest vigour by the power remaining in the fenate : yet this was between two and three hundred years after the period of Dio- nyfius ends with ; in which time the commons had made feveral further acquifitions . This however muft be ...
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... greatest dangers from with- out , to be torn by many virulent factions within ; then to be fecure and fenfelefs under all this , and to make it the very leaft of our concern : thefe , and fome others that might be named , appear to me ...
... greatest dangers from with- out , to be torn by many virulent factions within ; then to be fecure and fenfelefs under all this , and to make it the very leaft of our concern : thefe , and fome others that might be named , appear to me ...
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