THE WORKS OF THE Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 3C. BATHURST, in Fleetstreet, 1760 |
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... reason , which in all difficulties or dangers , where prudence or courage is required , do rather incite us to fly for coun- fel or affistance to a fingle perfon , than a multitude . The second natural divifion of power is of fuch men ...
... reason , which in all difficulties or dangers , where prudence or courage is required , do rather incite us to fly for coun- fel or affistance to a fingle perfon , than a multitude . The second natural divifion of power is of fuch men ...
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... reason , while men are difengaged from acquired opinions , will ever have fome general influence upon their minds ; whereas the species of folly and vice are infinite , and fo different in every individual , that they could never ...
... reason , while men are difengaged from acquired opinions , will ever have fome general influence upon their minds ; whereas the species of folly and vice are infinite , and fo different in every individual , that they could never ...
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Jonathan Swift. tizan would help me to a tolerable reason , that be- caufe Clodius and Curio happen to agree with me in a few fingular notions , I must therefore blindly fol- low them in all : or , to ftate it at beft , that be- caufe ...
Jonathan Swift. tizan would help me to a tolerable reason , that be- caufe Clodius and Curio happen to agree with me in a few fingular notions , I must therefore blindly fol- low them in all : or , to ftate it at beft , that be- caufe ...
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... reason , if they judged of princes by them- felves ; for , I think , there is hardly to be found through all nature a greater difference between two things , than there is between a representing com- moner in the function of his publick ...
... reason , if they judged of princes by them- felves ; for , I think , there is hardly to be found through all nature a greater difference between two things , than there is between a representing com- moner in the function of his publick ...
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... reason , I can- not poffibly think fo well or fo ill of either party , as they would endeavour to perfuade the world of each other , and of themselves . For instance ; I do not charge it upon the body of the whigs or the tories , that ...
... reason , I can- not poffibly think fo well or fo ill of either party , as they would endeavour to perfuade the world of each other , and of themselves . For instance ; I do not charge it upon the body of the whigs or the tories , that ...
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