The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 1A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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... observe , not at all regard- ed , or thought on by any of our prefent writers ; and being wholly free from that flavery which book fellers ufually lie under to the caprices of authors ; I think it a wife piece of prefumption , to ...
... observe , not at all regard- ed , or thought on by any of our prefent writers ; and being wholly free from that flavery which book fellers ufually lie under to the caprices of authors ; I think it a wife piece of prefumption , to ...
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... observe this peculiar The Tale of a Tub has made much noife in the world . It was one of Swift's earliest performances , and has never been excelled in wit and spirit by his own , or any other pen . The cenfures that have paffed upon it ...
... observe this peculiar The Tale of a Tub has made much noife in the world . It was one of Swift's earliest performances , and has never been excelled in wit and spirit by his own , or any other pen . The cenfures that have paffed upon it ...
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... observe the continual efforts made by the focieties of Gresham and of Will's t to edify a name and repu- tation upon the ruin of OURS . And this is yet a more feeling grief to us , upon the regards of tender- nefs as well as of juftice ...
... observe the continual efforts made by the focieties of Gresham and of Will's t to edify a name and repu- tation upon the ruin of OURS . And this is yet a more feeling grief to us , upon the regards of tender- nefs as well as of juftice ...
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... observe their eyes turned up in the posture of one who endeavours to keep himself awake ; by which , and many other fymptoms among them , it manifeftly appears , that the reafoning faculties are all fufpended and fuperfeded ; that ...
... observe their eyes turned up in the posture of one who endeavours to keep himself awake ; by which , and many other fymptoms among them , it manifeftly appears , that the reafoning faculties are all fufpended and fuperfeded ; that ...
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... observe how difficult it is to get rid of a phrafe , which the world is once grown fond of , though the occafion that first produced it be entirely taken away . For feveral years past , if a man had but an ill - favoured nofe , the deep ...
... observe how difficult it is to get rid of a phrafe , which the world is once grown fond of , though the occafion that first produced it be entirely taken away . For feveral years past , if a man had but an ill - favoured nofe , the deep ...
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Page 313 - But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came •where he was ; and when he saw him he had compassion on him...
Page 313 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way : and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Page 314 - Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves ? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him. Go, and do thou likewise.
Page 313 - Thou fhalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy ftrength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyfelf.
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Page 52 - These postulata being admitted, it will follow in due course of reasoning that those beings, which the world calls improperly suits of clothes, are in reality the most refined species of animals ; or, to proceed higher, that they are rational creatures, or men.
Page 314 - But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him.