The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: 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, 1766 |
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Page 79
... besides many others that have flirted at it Occafionally , without one fyllable having been ever pub- lifhed in its defence , or even quotation to its advantage , that I can remember , except by the polite author of a late difcourfe ...
... besides many others that have flirted at it Occafionally , without one fyllable having been ever pub- lifhed in its defence , or even quotation to its advantage , that I can remember , except by the polite author of a late difcourfe ...
Page 83
... Besides , it is reckoned , that there is not at this prefent a fufficient quantity of new matter left in nature to furnish and adorn any one particular fubject to the extent of a volume . This I am told by a very skilful computer , who ...
... Besides , it is reckoned , that there is not at this prefent a fufficient quantity of new matter left in nature to furnish and adorn any one particular fubject to the extent of a volume . This I am told by a very skilful computer , who ...
Page 119
... Besides , it was among the great misfortunes of Jack to bear a huge perfonal refemblance with his brother Peter . Their humour and difpofitions were not only the fame , but there was a clofe analogy in their fhape and fize , and their ...
... Besides , it was among the great misfortunes of Jack to bear a huge perfonal refemblance with his brother Peter . Their humour and difpofitions were not only the fame , but there was a clofe analogy in their fhape and fize , and their ...
Page 174
... Besides , there is many an operation , which in its original was purely an artifice , but through a long fucceffion of ages hath grown to be natural . Hippocrates tells us that among our an- ceftors , the Scythians , there was a nation ...
... Besides , there is many an operation , which in its original was purely an artifice , but through a long fucceffion of ages hath grown to be natural . Hippocrates tells us that among our an- ceftors , the Scythians , there was a nation ...
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