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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Page iv
... because , under the notion of prejudices , he knew to what dangerous heights fome men have proceeded . Thus prepared , he thought the numerous and grofs corrupti- ons in religion and learning might furnish matter for a fatyr , that ...
... because , under the notion of prejudices , he knew to what dangerous heights fome men have proceeded . Thus prepared , he thought the numerous and grofs corrupti- ons in religion and learning might furnish matter for a fatyr , that ...
Page vi
... because they are levelled to remove those terrors , that religion tells men will be the confequence of immoral lives . Nothing like which is to be met with in this discourse , though some of them are pleased so freely to cenfure it ...
... because they are levelled to remove those terrors , that religion tells men will be the confequence of immoral lives . Nothing like which is to be met with in this discourse , though some of them are pleased so freely to cenfure it ...
Page xiv
... because it is agreed on all hands , that the author had This we cannot recover at prefent , it being fo abfolute- ly forgotten , the oldeft book- fellers in trade remember no- thing of it . + Wotton's defence of his reflections upon ...
... because it is agreed on all hands , that the author had This we cannot recover at prefent , it being fo abfolute- ly forgotten , the oldeft book- fellers in trade remember no- thing of it . + Wotton's defence of his reflections upon ...
Page xxvi
... because they are infenfible ; and where wit hath any mix- ture of raillery , it is but calling it banter , and the work is done . This polite word of theirs was firft borrowed from the bul- lies in White - Friers , then fell among the ...
... because they are infenfible ; and where wit hath any mix- ture of raillery , it is but calling it banter , and the work is done . This polite word of theirs was firft borrowed from the bul- lies in White - Friers , then fell among the ...
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... because they were fuppofed to have been written , if not by the Dean , yet by fome friend who knew his particular view in the paffage they were intended to illuf- trate , or the truth of the fact which they afferted ; however , this has ...
... because they were fuppofed to have been written , if not by the Dean , yet by fome friend who knew his particular view in the paffage they were intended to illuf- trate , or the truth of the fact which they afferted ; however , this has ...
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againſt alfo alſo anſwer antient appears becauſe befides beſt buſineſs called cauſe church cloſe confequence converfation courſe dean Deane Swift defign defire diftinguiſhed diſcourſe diſcovered elſe eſpecially faid fame farther fays feems fenfes ferve feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide fince fir William firft firſt fome fometimes fons foon fpirit friends ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fure furniſh greateſt Gulliver's Travels hath higheſt himſelf honour horſe houſe Ireland Irenæus itſelf Jonathan Swift juſt laft laſt leaft learning leaſt lefs letter lord mafter miſtake modern moft Momus moſt muſt myſelf nature never obferved occafion Orrery paffages paffed perfon Peter pleaſe preferved preſent publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reader reaſon refolved reft refuſed ſays ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſome ſtate Swift thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thouſand tion treatiſe ufual underſtand underſtood univerfal uſed utmoſt whofe whoſe Wotton writers