The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: Accurately Revised ... Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volume 1C. Pathurst, 1754 |
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... allowed to have any merit : they are indeed like annuals , that grow about a young tree , and feem to vie with it for a fummer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of any more . When Dr. Eachard writ his ...
... allowed to have any merit : they are indeed like annuals , that grow about a young tree , and feem to vie with it for a fummer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of any more . When Dr. Eachard writ his ...
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... allowed to have been one of the most re- served and mysterious of all politicians , was to him in affairs of the utmoft moment open and explicit . The refult of one of their conferences fo early as the year 1710 , was to this effect ...
... allowed to have been one of the most re- served and mysterious of all politicians , was to him in affairs of the utmoft moment open and explicit . The refult of one of their conferences fo early as the year 1710 , was to this effect ...
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... allowed an annuity of fifty guineas to Mrs. Dingley , but instead of doing this with the pa- rade of a benefactor , or gratifying his pride by ma- king her feel her dependance , he always pretended that he acted only as her agent , and ...
... allowed an annuity of fifty guineas to Mrs. Dingley , but instead of doing this with the pa- rade of a benefactor , or gratifying his pride by ma- king her feel her dependance , he always pretended that he acted only as her agent , and ...
Page 36
... allowed that Swift was likely to be always the most knowing of his company . Lord Orrery fays , that he was little acquainted with the mathematics , and ne- D. S.271 , 272 , 276 . 101 . ver confidered the fcience except as an ob- Orrery ...
... allowed that Swift was likely to be always the most knowing of his company . Lord Orrery fays , that he was little acquainted with the mathematics , and ne- D. S.271 , 272 , 276 . 101 . ver confidered the fcience except as an ob- Orrery ...
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... But it is alfo generally allowed that , in this in- stance as in every other , the dean's intention was up- right , though his judgment might be erroneous ; and and , whatever cenfure his behaviour to Stella may draw AN ACCOUNT OF THE.
... But it is alfo generally allowed that , in this in- stance as in every other , the dean's intention was up- right , though his judgment might be erroneous ; and and , whatever cenfure his behaviour to Stella may draw AN ACCOUNT OF THE.
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