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 vii
... fays his lordship , that vice as foon as it defied frame , 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 ...
... fays his lordship , that vice as foon as it defied frame , 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 ...
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 xi
... fay of his box that it was toffed up and down like a fign - POST in a windy day , though the manner in which a fign - poft is tossed up and down by the wind is much less eafy to conceive , than the motion of the box which it was intend ...
... fay of his box that it was toffed up and down like a fign - POST in a windy day , though the manner in which a fign - poft is tossed up and down by the wind is much less eafy to conceive , than the motion of the box which it was intend ...
Page xiv
... fays , in a letter to Mr. Pope , dated May 1 , 17339 it is an impofture , mean and trivial , and full of the cant that I most defpife . It appears alfo by a letter of Mr. Pope , dated 15th Sept. 1734 , that the Dean bad ftrongly ...
... fays , in a letter to Mr. Pope , dated May 1 , 17339 it is an impofture , mean and trivial , and full of the cant that I most defpife . It appears alfo by a letter of Mr. Pope , dated 15th Sept. 1734 , that the Dean bad ftrongly ...
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 alfo 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 alfo more ...
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