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 xxvi
... laft retired to the pedants , by whom it is applied as properly to the productions of wit , as if I fhould apply it to Sir Ifaac Newton's mathematics : but , if this bantering , as they call it , be fo defpifeable a thing , whence comes ...
... laft retired to the pedants , by whom it is applied as properly to the productions of wit , as if I fhould apply it to Sir Ifaac Newton's mathematics : but , if this bantering , as they call it , be fo defpifeable a thing , whence comes ...
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... laft admit- ted fpeciali gratia , which is there confidered as the highest degree of reproach and difhonour . But upon Swift , this punishment was not ineffec- tual , he dreaded the repetition of fuch difgrace as the laft evil that ...
... laft admit- ted fpeciali gratia , which is there confidered as the highest degree of reproach and difhonour . But upon Swift , this punishment was not ineffec- tual , he dreaded the repetition of fuch difgrace as the laft evil that ...
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... laft pa- ragraphs of feet . xxiii , in the Dear's sketch of his own life where Moorpark is mentioned ; in the first it is faid that Swift af- ter having been fome months with his mother at Leicefler , was received by fir William who was ...
... laft pa- ragraphs of feet . xxiii , in the Dear's sketch of his own life where Moorpark is mentioned ; in the first it is faid that Swift af- ter having been fome months with his mother at Leicefler , was received by fir William who was ...
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... laft re- jected , and thus ended Swift's first embaffy to court , fo much to his diffatisfaction , that he then declared it was the first incident that helped to cure him of vanity . Soon after * this transaction he was feized with the ...
... laft re- jected , and thus ended Swift's first embaffy to court , fo much to his diffatisfaction , that he then declared it was the first incident that helped to cure him of vanity . Soon after * this transaction he was feized with the ...
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... laft ministry , because he would not go certain lengths which they would have had him , this being in fome fort Mr. Harley's own cafe . Letter to King , vol . XII . Mr. Harley received him with the utmoft kindness and respect , he fat ...
... laft ministry , because he would not go certain lengths which they would have had him , this being in fome fort Mr. Harley's own cafe . Letter to King , vol . XII . Mr. Harley received him with the utmoft kindness and respect , he fat ...
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