THE WORKS OF THE Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 3C. BATHURST, in Fleetstreet, 1760 |
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... . We speak of Sir John Vanbrugh , who was a man of wit , and of honour ; and of Mr. Addison , whose name deserves all respect from every lover of learning . We cannot deny ( and perhaps moft writers of our B 2 We PREFACE .
... . We speak of Sir John Vanbrugh , who was a man of wit , and of honour ; and of Mr. Addison , whose name deserves all respect from every lover of learning . We cannot deny ( and perhaps moft writers of our B 2 We PREFACE .
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... whose governor he was , reftored thofe whom Phocion had banished , the plot fucceeded . Phocion was accused by popular orators , and put to death . Thus was the most powerful commonwealth of all Greece , after great degeneracies from ...
... whose governor he was , reftored thofe whom Phocion had banished , the plot fucceeded . Phocion was accused by popular orators , and put to death . Thus was the most powerful commonwealth of all Greece , after great degeneracies from ...
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... whose death the commons prevailed , and the lands were divid- ed among them . This point was no fooner gained , but new diffentions began for the plebeians would fain have a law enacted to lay all mens rights and privileges upon the ...
... whose death the commons prevailed , and the lands were divid- ed among them . This point was no fooner gained , but new diffentions began for the plebeians would fain have a law enacted to lay all mens rights and privileges upon the ...
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... 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- gether owing to those measures , which ...
... 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- gether owing to those measures , which ...
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... whose state and power they advance to their own ruin , with as blind an in- ftinct , as thofe worms that die with weaving mag- nificent habits for beings of a fuperior nature to their own . SOM CHA P. V. COME reflections upon the late ...
... whose state and power they advance to their own ruin , with as blind an in- ftinct , as thofe worms that die with weaving mag- nificent habits for beings of a fuperior nature to their own . SOM CHA P. V. COME reflections upon the late ...
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