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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... wholly to books of hiftory and poetry , by which he could , without intel- lectual labour , fill his mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the fenfe of his condition . The facrifice of the future to the prefent , whether ...
... wholly to books of hiftory and poetry , by which he could , without intel- lectual labour , fill his mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the fenfe of his condition . The facrifice of the future to the prefent , whether ...
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... wholly without recommendation , he got himself reprefented as a person who had been extremely ill ufed by the laft miniftry , because he would not go certain lengths which they would have had him , this being in fome fort Mr. Harley's ...
... wholly without recommendation , he got himself reprefented as a person who had been extremely ill ufed by the laft miniftry , because he would not go certain lengths which they would have had him , this being in fome fort Mr. Harley's ...
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... not neglect their duty . As to his employment at home , he feems to have had no heart to apply himfelf to ftudy of any kind , but VOL . J. D TQ to have refigned himself wholly to fuch amufements as offered LIFE OF DR . SWIFT . 33.
... not neglect their duty . As to his employment at home , he feems to have had no heart to apply himfelf to ftudy of any kind , but VOL . J. D TQ to have refigned himself wholly to fuch amufements as offered LIFE OF DR . SWIFT . 33.
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... wholly to fuch amufements as offered , that he might not think of his fituation , the misfortune of his friends , and the difappointment of his hope ; fuch at leaft is the account that he gives to Mr. Gay , in his letter dated January 8 ...
... wholly to fuch amufements as offered , that he might not think of his fituation , the misfortune of his friends , and the difappointment of his hope ; fuch at leaft is the account that he gives to Mr. Gay , in his letter dated January 8 ...
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... wholly neglected his ftudies for the firft three years of his refidence at the deanery , and indulged the refent- ment which his difappointments had produced till it could be contained no longer , he conceived the firit no- tion of ...
... wholly neglected his ftudies for the firft three years of his refidence at the deanery , and indulged the refent- ment which his difappointments had produced till it could be contained no longer , he conceived the firit no- tion of ...
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