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 viii
... fame hand with this : which the author directly affirms to be a thorough mistake ; he having yet never fo much as read that discourse : a plain inftance how little truth there often is in general furmifes , or in conjectures drawn from ...
... fame hand with this : which the author directly affirms to be a thorough mistake ; he having yet never fo much as read that discourse : a plain inftance how little truth there often is in general furmifes , or in conjectures drawn from ...
Page ix
... fame rate ; and L'Eftrange often uses the like ftyle ; and I believe , the reader may find more perfons to give that paffage an application : but this is enough to direct thofe , who may have overlooked the author's intention . There ...
... fame rate ; and L'Eftrange often uses the like ftyle ; and I believe , the reader may find more perfons to give that paffage an application : but this is enough to direct thofe , who may have overlooked the author's intention . There ...
Page xviii
... fame time protesting folemnly , that he never once heard of that letter , except in this paffage of the answerer : fo that the names were not borrowed , as he affirms , though they should happen to be the fame ; which however is odd ...
... fame time protesting folemnly , that he never once heard of that letter , except in this paffage of the answerer : fo that the names were not borrowed , as he affirms , though they should happen to be the fame ; which however is odd ...
Page xx
... fame , only mutatis mutandis . Neither will he infift upon the mistake in the title ; but let the answerer and his friend produce any book they please , he defies them to fhew one fingle particular , where the judicious rea- der will ...
... fame , only mutatis mutandis . Neither will he infift upon the mistake in the title ; but let the answerer and his friend produce any book they please , he defies them to fhew one fingle particular , where the judicious rea- der will ...
Page xxii
... fame time fixes , in print , what he thinks a disadvantageous character upon those who never deferved it . A man , who receives a buffet in the dark , may be al- lowed to be vexed ; but it is an odd kind of of revenge to go to cuffs in ...
... fame time fixes , in print , what he thinks a disadvantageous character upon those who never deferved it . A man , who receives a buffet in the dark , may be al- lowed to be vexed ; but it is an odd kind of of revenge to go to cuffs in ...
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