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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... used to carry on ber girdle , and the water oozed in at the crannies , be obferves , that if he could have lifted up the roof , he would have fat on the top of it , where be might at least have preferved himself some hours longer , than ...
... used to carry on ber girdle , and the water oozed in at the crannies , be obferves , that if he could have lifted up the roof , he would have fat on the top of it , where be might at least have preferved himself some hours longer , than ...
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... used to run it in about fix minutes . By what books his ftudies were principally directed cannot certainly be known , but feveral copious extracts from Cyprian , Irenæus , Sleidan's Commentaries , and Padre Paolo's history of the ...
... used to run it in about fix minutes . By what books his ftudies were principally directed cannot certainly be known , but feveral copious extracts from Cyprian , Irenæus , Sleidan's Commentaries , and Padre Paolo's history of the ...
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... used to bribe the maid with a tefter for a fingle bed and clean sheets . In this manner he went down to his mother upon his leaving fir William , and from Leicester he wrote a letter , dated June 1694 , to his coufin Deane Swift , then ...
... used to bribe the maid with a tefter for a fingle bed and clean sheets . In this manner he went down to his mother upon his leaving fir William , and from Leicester he wrote a letter , dated June 1694 , to his coufin Deane Swift , then ...
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... 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 when ...
... 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 when ...
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... used to declare that he did not re- nounce it till his acquaintance with Harley , nor did he ever mention his fubfequent attach 7. R. ment to politics , without indubitable signs of penitence and regret . 41 , 42 , 266 . It is probable ...
... used to declare that he did not re- nounce it till his acquaintance with Harley , nor did he ever mention his fubfequent attach 7. R. ment to politics , without indubitable signs of penitence and regret . 41 , 42 , 266 . It is probable ...
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