The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised, in Twelve Volumes. Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volume 1C. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Hinton, J. Dodsley, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, and W. Bowyer., 1766 |
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Page vii
... fays his lordship , that vice as foon as it defied fhame , was immediately changed into virtue ; but the most obvious and natural meaning is just contrary . That we defire to con- ceal no act which upon reflection we do not dif cover to ...
... fays his lordship , that vice as foon as it defied fhame , was immediately changed into virtue ; but the most obvious and natural meaning is just contrary . That we defire to con- ceal no act which upon reflection we do not dif cover to ...
Page ix
... fays , that he arrived in the Downs from Lilliput , on the 13th of April , 1702 , and that he took shipping again on the 20th of June following , two months after his return ; but in the Irish edition , though the fame dates are ...
... fays , that he arrived in the Downs from Lilliput , on the 13th of April , 1702 , and that he took shipping again on the 20th of June following , two months after his return ; but in the Irish edition , though the fame dates are ...
Page xiii
... fay of a man who has the power and the will , that he has also the guilt to do mis- chief ; for whatever guilt he can contract be- fore the perpetration of the mischief , is included in the will . These paffages are to be found in the ...
... fay of a man who has the power and the will , that he has also the guilt to do mis- chief ; for whatever guilt he can contract be- fore the perpetration of the mischief , is included in the will . These paffages are to be found in the ...
Page xiv
... fays , in a letter to Mr. Pope , dated May 1 , 1733 , it is an impofture , mean and trivial , and full of the cant that I most defpife . It appears also by a letter of Mr. Pope , dated 15th Sept. 1734 , that the Dean had strongly ...
... fays , in a letter to Mr. Pope , dated May 1 , 1733 , it is an impofture , mean and trivial , and full of the cant that I most defpife . It appears also by a letter of Mr. Pope , dated 15th Sept. 1734 , that the Dean had strongly ...
Page xv
... fays , that when the printer applied to him for leave to print his works in Ireland , he told him he would give no leave ; and when he printed them with- out , be declared it was much to his difcontent . The fame fentiment is also more ...
... fays , that when the printer applied to him for leave to print his works in Ireland , he told him he would give no leave ; and when he printed them with- out , be declared it was much to his difcontent . The fame fentiment is also more ...
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