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 xi
... common answerers to books , which are 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 ...
... common answerers to books , which are 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 ...
Page xii
... common hands , nor to be hoped for above once or twice in an age . Men would be more cautious of lof- ing their time in fuch an undertaking , if they did but confider , that to answer a book effectually , requires more pains and skill ...
... common hands , nor to be hoped for above once or twice in an age . Men would be more cautious of lof- ing their time in fuch an undertaking , if they did but confider , that to answer a book effectually , requires more pains and skill ...
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... common enemy to the rest of mankind , from whom THEY HAVE received no obligations . " Voyage to Lilliput , Chap . VI . The children of the Lilliputians are faid to be apprenticed at feven years of age in- Lead of cleven , which is ...
... common enemy to the rest of mankind , from whom THEY HAVE received no obligations . " Voyage to Lilliput , Chap . VI . The children of the Lilliputians are faid to be apprenticed at feven years of age in- Lead of cleven , which is ...
Page 73
... common , among pretenders to wit , to affect great contempt for every kind of regularity , to ` live , or pretend to live , in a state of continual diffipa- tion , without regard to the return of those seasons which have been generally ...
... common , among pretenders to wit , to affect great contempt for every kind of regularity , to ` live , or pretend to live , in a state of continual diffipa- tion , without regard to the return of those seasons which have been generally ...
Page 80
... common way of other men ; as long as it continues I fhall ever bear a grateful memory for this favour you have fhewn , beyond my expectation , and almost exceeding my wishes . The inhabitants of the liberty as well as thofe of the ...
... common way of other men ; as long as it continues I fhall ever bear a grateful memory for this favour you have fhewn , beyond my expectation , and almost exceeding my wishes . The inhabitants of the liberty as well as thofe of the ...
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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