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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... present . Though perhaps I fhall not be apt to reckon much merit to your lordship upon that score , who having been formerly used to tedious harangues ‡ , and fometimes to as little purpose , will be the readier to pardon this ...
... present . Though perhaps I fhall not be apt to reckon much merit to your lordship upon that score , who having been formerly used to tedious harangues ‡ , and fometimes to as little purpose , will be the readier to pardon this ...
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... present affairs , and that knew nothing of what had paffed in the beft companies of court and town . So that I can only avow in general to your highness , that we do abound in learning and wit ; but to fix upon particulars , is a task ...
... present affairs , and that knew nothing of what had paffed in the beft companies of court and town . So that I can only avow in general to your highness , that we do abound in learning and wit ; but to fix upon particulars , is a task ...
Page 82
... present is twofold : either first , to ferve them as fome men do lords , learn their titles exactly , and then brag of their acquaintance . Or fecondly , which is indeed the choicer , the profounder , and politer method , to get a ...
... present is twofold : either first , to ferve them as fome men do lords , learn their titles exactly , and then brag of their acquaintance . Or fecondly , which is indeed the choicer , the profounder , and politer method , to get a ...
Page 89
... present . This was fituated in a certain region , well known to the antient Greeks , by them called Exoría , or the land of darkness . And although many controverfies have arifen upon that matter ; yet fo much is undifputed , that from ...
... present . This was fituated in a certain region , well known to the antient Greeks , by them called Exoría , or the land of darkness . And although many controverfies have arifen upon that matter ; yet fo much is undifputed , that from ...
Page 107
... present I fhall not farther enlarge . † Hark + I cannot conjecture what it is capable of more than one the author means here , or how interpretation . this chaẩm could be filled , though in your ear I am strangely mistaken , if all 0 4 ...
... present I fhall not farther enlarge . † Hark + I cannot conjecture what it is capable of more than one the author means here , or how interpretation . this chaẩm could be filled , though in your ear I am strangely mistaken , if all 0 4 ...
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