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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... advertise- ment published O & t . 15 , 1754 , calls himself the editor as well as publisher of the Dublin edi- tion , and the Dean has often renounced the un- dertaking dertaking in exprefs terms . In his letter to Mr. xiv THE PREFACE . •
... advertise- ment published O & t . 15 , 1754 , calls himself the editor as well as publisher of the Dublin edi- tion , and the Dean has often renounced the un- dertaking dertaking in exprefs terms . In his letter to Mr. xiv THE PREFACE . •
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... tion , was very averse , by the advice of some end , and weak people , who perfuaded the earl of Port- xxiv . be- land , that Charles the Firft loft his crown and ginning . life by confenting to fuch a bill . Upon this oc- cafion the ...
... tion , was very averse , by the advice of some end , and weak people , who perfuaded the earl of Port- xxiv . be- land , that Charles the Firft loft his crown and ginning . life by confenting to fuch a bill . Upon this oc- cafion the ...
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... tion he was feized with the return of a dif order , which he had contracted in Ireland by eating a great quantity of fruit ; and upon this occafion returned thither by the advice of his phyficians , who hoped that his native air would ...
... tion he was feized with the return of a dif order , which he had contracted in Ireland by eating a great quantity of fruit ; and upon this occafion returned thither by the advice of his phyficians , who hoped that his native air would ...
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... tion , a paffion which by frequent converfe was foftened into complacency , and complacency was at length im- proved into love . Love itfelf , perhaps , was in this cafe complicated with vanity , which would have been highly gratified ...
... tion , a paffion which by frequent converfe was foftened into complacency , and complacency was at length im- proved into love . Love itfelf , perhaps , was in this cafe complicated with vanity , which would have been highly gratified ...
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... tion of expreffing it in fuch a manner , as might correct the enormities which he expofed ; and with this view immediately began his Travels , of which the first copy was , probably , finifhed before the year 1720 . About this time the ...
... tion of expreffing it in fuch a manner , as might correct the enormities which he expofed ; and with this view immediately began his Travels , of which the first copy was , probably , finifhed before the year 1720 . About this time the ...
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