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 v
... defires to be anfwerable no farther than he is guilty , and that his faults may not be multiplied by the ignorant , the unnatural , and uncha- ritable applications of those , who have neither candor to fuppofe good meanings , nor palate ...
... defires to be anfwerable no farther than he is guilty , and that his faults may not be multiplied by the ignorant , the unnatural , and uncha- ritable applications of those , who have neither candor to fuppofe good meanings , nor palate ...
Page xvi
... defires to plead the excuse offered already , of his youth , and frank- nefs of speech , and his papers being out of his power at the time they were pub- lished . But this answerer infists , and says , what he chiefly dislikes , is the ...
... defires to plead the excuse offered already , of his youth , and frank- nefs of speech , and his papers being out of his power at the time they were pub- lished . But this answerer infists , and says , what he chiefly dislikes , is the ...
Page xix
... defire firft to know whether , if that conjecture proves an ut- ter falfhood , thofe two claufes will be a fufficient excufe for this worthy critic . The matter is a trifle ; but , would he venture to pronounce at this rate upon one of ...
... defire firft to know whether , if that conjecture proves an ut- ter falfhood , thofe two claufes will be a fufficient excufe for this worthy critic . The matter is a trifle ; but , would he venture to pronounce at this rate upon one of ...
Page 7
... defire to conceal no act which upon re- flection we do not difcover to be vicious , be- caufe virtue is pleafed in proportion as it is difplayed ; and indeed thefe verfes could not be fuppofed an apology for lewdness , if his lordship ...
... defire to conceal no act which upon re- flection we do not difcover to be vicious , be- caufe virtue is pleafed in proportion as it is difplayed ; and indeed thefe verfes could not be fuppofed an apology for lewdness , if his lordship ...
Page 15
... pressed him to print them , and gave him what manufcript copies they had occafionally gotten from me ; my defire was that thofe works should have been printed 1 printed in London , by an agreement be- tween THE PREFACE . 15.
... pressed him to print them , and gave him what manufcript copies they had occafionally gotten from me ; my defire was that thofe works should have been printed 1 printed in London , by an agreement be- tween THE PREFACE . 15.
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