THE WORKS OF THE Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 3C. BATHURST, in Fleetstreet, 1760 |
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... draw it into as narrow a com- pafs as I can . As Greece , from the moft antient accounts we have of it , was divided into several kingdoms , fo was most part of Italy + into feveral petty commonwealths . And pait 30 CONTESTS AND ...
... draw it into as narrow a com- pafs as I can . As Greece , from the moft antient accounts we have of it , was divided into several kingdoms , fo was most part of Italy + into feveral petty commonwealths . And pait 30 CONTESTS AND ...
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... kingdom by the people , without the confent of the fenate ; at which the nobles being difpleased , he wholly applied him- felf to gratify the commons , and was by them de- clared and confirmed no longer protector , but king . This ...
... kingdom by the people , without the confent of the fenate ; at which the nobles being difpleased , he wholly applied him- felf to gratify the commons , and was by them de- clared and confirmed no longer protector , but king . This ...
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... kingdom . The fate of empire is grown a common - place : that all forms of government having been instituted by men , must be mortal like their authors , and have their periods of duration limited as well as thofe of private perfons ...
... kingdom . The fate of empire is grown a common - place : that all forms of government having been instituted by men , must be mortal like their authors , and have their periods of duration limited as well as thofe of private perfons ...
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... kingdom , who could fall in with their definition . After the like manner they in- fult the universities as poifoned fountains , and corrupters of youth . Now it seems clear to me , that the whigs might ea- fily have procured and ...
... kingdom , who could fall in with their definition . After the like manner they in- fult the universities as poifoned fountains , and corrupters of youth . Now it seems clear to me , that the whigs might ea- fily have procured and ...
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... kingdom , that it doth not deserve . We have no better materials to compound the priesthood of , than the mass of mankind , which corrupted , as it is , those who re- ceive orders must have fome vices to leave behind them when when they ...
... kingdom , that it doth not deserve . We have no better materials to compound the priesthood of , than the mass of mankind , which corrupted , as it is , those who re- ceive orders must have fome vices to leave behind them when when they ...
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