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 ix
... give that paffage an application : but this is enough to direct thofe , who may have overlooked the author's intention . There are three or four other paffages , which prejudiced or ignorant readers have drawn by great force to hint at ...
... give that paffage an application : but this is enough to direct thofe , who may have overlooked the author's intention . There are three or four other paffages , which prejudiced or ignorant readers have drawn by great force to hint at ...
Page xviii
... give it up , and de- fires his readers will fubtract as much as they placed upon that account ; at the fame time protesting folemnly , that he never once heard of that letter , except in this paffage of the answerer : fo that the names ...
... give it up , and de- fires his readers will fubtract as much as they placed upon that account ; at the fame time protesting folemnly , that he never once heard of that letter , except in this paffage of the answerer : fo that the names ...
Page xxi
... give them any thanks for endeavouring at . The part of Minellius , or Farnaby would have Low commentators , who wrote notes upon claffick au- thors for the ufe of schoolboys . a 3 fallen fallen in with his genius , and might have been ...
... give them any thanks for endeavouring at . The part of Minellius , or Farnaby would have Low commentators , who wrote notes upon claffick au- thors for the ufe of schoolboys . a 3 fallen fallen in with his genius , and might have been ...
Page xxii
... give us hints that the au- thor is dead , and yet to lay the fufpicion upon fome - body , I know not who , in the country ; to which can only be returned , that he is abfolutely mistaken in all his conjectures ; and furely conjectures ...
... give us hints that the au- thor is dead , and yet to lay the fufpicion upon fome - body , I know not who , in the country ; to which can only be returned , that he is abfolutely mistaken in all his conjectures ; and furely conjectures ...
Page xxvii
... give him the vanity of telling his name , wherein the world , with all its wife conjectures , is yet very much in the dark ; which circumftance is no dif- agreeable amusement either to the public or himself . The The author is informed ...
... give him the vanity of telling his name , wherein the world , with all its wife conjectures , is yet very much in the dark ; which circumftance is no dif- agreeable amusement either to the public or himself . The The author is informed ...
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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