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 viii
... faid to be apprenticed at seven years of age instead of eleven , which is evidently wrong , as the author fuppofes the age of fifteen with them to answer that of one and twenty with us ; a proportion which will be nearly kept , by ...
... faid to be apprenticed at seven years of age instead of eleven , which is evidently wrong , as the author fuppofes the age of fifteen with them to answer that of one and twenty with us ; a proportion which will be nearly kept , by ...
Page xi
... faid to be five years instead of three , though . be tells us he was fet on fbore there in 1711 , and departed in 1714. Voyage to the Houyhnhnms ; compare the beginning of Chap . I , with Chap . XI , of which fee alfo the last paragraph ...
... faid to be five years instead of three , though . be tells us he was fet on fbore there in 1711 , and departed in 1714. Voyage to the Houyhnhnms ; compare the beginning of Chap . I , with Chap . XI , of which fee alfo the last paragraph ...
Page 2
... faid he never went into that kingdom . He died with- out male iffue , and the family - inheritance defcended to his daughters , one of whom married Robert Fielding , efq ; commonly called handfome Fielding , and the other the earl of ...
... faid he never went into that kingdom . He died with- out male iffue , and the family - inheritance defcended to his daughters , one of whom married Robert Fielding , efq ; commonly called handfome Fielding , and the other the earl of ...
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... faid Swift , to give his majefly my coat , at the fame time pulling it off and prefenting it : the governor told him pleasantly that his coat was worth little ; why then , faid Swift , take my waistcoat ; this was foon found to be an ...
... faid Swift , to give his majefly my coat , at the fame time pulling it off and prefenting it : the governor told him pleasantly that his coat was worth little ; why then , faid Swift , take my waistcoat ; this was foon found to be an ...
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... faid much to fhew him the mistake , but without effect , and therefore he foon after- wards difpatched Swift to Kenfington with the whole account in writing , to convince the king and the earl how ill they were informed . Swift , though ...
... faid much to fhew him the mistake , but without effect , and therefore he foon after- wards difpatched Swift to Kenfington with the whole account in writing , to convince the king and the earl how ill they were informed . Swift , though ...
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