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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... necessary , if it be confidered that the fame at is justice if the fubject is a criminal , which would have been murder if executed on the innocent , " Lord Orrery has been so far from acting upon 5 Lord vi THE PREFACE .
... necessary , if it be confidered that the fame at is justice if the fubject is a criminal , which would have been murder if executed on the innocent , " Lord Orrery has been so far from acting upon 5 Lord vi THE PREFACE .
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... confidered as the highest degree of reproach and dishonour . But upon Swift this punishment was not ineffectual , he dreaded the repetition of fuch difgrace as the last evil that could befal him , and therefore immediately fet about to ...
... confidered as the highest degree of reproach and dishonour . But upon Swift this punishment was not ineffectual , he dreaded the repetition of fuch difgrace as the last evil that could befal him , and therefore immediately fet about to ...
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... in the pretender , and the fame defign was confequently imputed to Swift , whom it was , therefore , confidered by fome as a quali- fication fication for preferment to revile and oppose : which party LIFE OF DR . SWIFT . 19.
... in the pretender , and the fame defign was confequently imputed to Swift , whom it was , therefore , confidered by fome as a quali- fication fication for preferment to revile and oppose : which party LIFE OF DR . SWIFT . 19.
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... confidered the feience except as an object of ridicule ; but the author of the Obfervations affirms , on the contrary , that he had acquired confiderable mathematical know- ledge , and that he had feen him more than J.R.101 . once ...
... confidered the feience except as an object of ridicule ; but the author of the Obfervations affirms , on the contrary , that he had acquired confiderable mathematical know- ledge , and that he had feen him more than J.R.101 . once ...
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... confidered him as their patron and legif- lator , after his propofal for the use of Irish manufactures , and came frequently in a body to receive his advice in fettling the rates of their ftuffs , and the wages of their journeymen ; and ...
... confidered him as their patron and legif- lator , after his propofal for the use of Irish manufactures , and came frequently in a body to receive his advice in fettling the rates of their ftuffs , and the wages of their journeymen ; and ...
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