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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... mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the sense of his condition . The facrifice of the future to the prefent , whether it be a folly or a fault , is feldom unpunished , and Swift foon found himself in the fituation of a ...
... mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the sense of his condition . The facrifice of the future to the prefent , whether it be a folly or a fault , is feldom unpunished , and Swift foon found himself in the fituation of a ...
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... mind , fo long continued , great knowledge muft neceffarily have been acquired . He commenced thefe ftudies at the univerfity in Dublin , where he continued them three years , and during this time he alfo drew the first sketch of his ...
... mind , fo long continued , great knowledge muft neceffarily have been acquired . He commenced thefe ftudies at the univerfity in Dublin , where he continued them three years , and during this time he alfo drew the first sketch of his ...
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... mind very early upon an ecclefiaftical life , and it is therefore probable , that upon declining this offer he obtained a promife of preferment in the church , for in a letter to his uncle William , dated 1692 , he says , " I am not to ...
... mind very early upon an ecclefiaftical life , and it is therefore probable , that upon declining this offer he obtained a promife of preferment in the church , for in a letter to his uncle William , dated 1692 , he says , " I am not to ...
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... mind . fect.xxiii . But he was ftill indefatigable in his ftudies , and , to prevent the lofs of health in the acquifition of know- ledge by the want of bodily exercife , it was his conflant practice to run up an hill that was near the ...
... mind . fect.xxiii . But he was ftill indefatigable in his ftudies , and , to prevent the lofs of health in the acquifition of know- ledge by the want of bodily exercife , it was his conflant practice to run up an hill that was near the ...
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... mind he used frequently to declare ; he hoped , he said . that by diligent and conftant application he fhould fo far excel , that the fexton might fometimes be asked on a Sunday morning , Pray does the doctor * preach to - day ? ' and ...
... mind he used frequently to declare ; he hoped , he said . that by diligent and conftant application he fhould fo far excel , that the fexton might fometimes be asked on a Sunday morning , Pray does the doctor * preach to - day ? ' and ...
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