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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... manner of chufing a Pope ; the Vatican library , the many grand obelisks , aqueducts , bridges , hofpitals , palaces , ftreets , towns , and other noble edifices , begun or finished by him . The whole interfperfed with feveral curious ...
... manner of chufing a Pope ; the Vatican library , the many grand obelisks , aqueducts , bridges , hofpitals , palaces , ftreets , towns , and other noble edifices , begun or finished by him . The whole interfperfed with feveral curious ...
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... 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- ed to illuftrate . Voyage to Brobdingnag , Chap . VII . As the word poft is not rejected in ...
... 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- ed to illuftrate . Voyage to Brobdingnag , Chap . VII . As the word poft is not rejected in ...
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... manners , and tranfmit a knowledge of him to pofterity , of the fame kind , if not in the fame degree , as was obtained by those among his contemporaries , who were admitted to his con- verfation and friendship . For the hiftory of his ...
... manners , and tranfmit a knowledge of him to pofterity , of the fame kind , if not in the fame degree , as was obtained by those among his contemporaries , who were admitted to his con- verfation and friendship . For the hiftory of his ...
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... manner , and once offered to make him a captain of horse . Swift appears to have fixed his D.S.108 . mind very early upon an ecclefiaftical life , and it is therefore probable , that upon declining this offer he obtained a promife of ...
... manner , and once offered to make him a captain of horse . Swift appears to have fixed his D.S.108 . mind very early upon an ecclefiaftical life , and it is therefore probable , that upon declining this offer he obtained a promife of ...
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... manner of travelling was very extraordinary ; he always went on foot , ex- cept the weather was very bad , and then he would fometimes take shelter in a waggon ; he chofe to dine at obfcure alehoufes among pedlars and hoftlers , and to ...
... manner of travelling was very extraordinary ; he always went on foot , ex- cept the weather was very bad , and then he would fometimes take shelter in a waggon ; he chofe to dine at obfcure alehoufes among pedlars and hoftlers , and to ...
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