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 iv
... learning might furnish matter for a fatyr , that would be useful and diverting . He refolved to proceed in a manner , that should be altogether new , the world having been already too long naufeated with endless repetitions upon every ...
... learning might furnish matter for a fatyr , that would be useful and diverting . He refolved to proceed in a manner , that should be altogether new , the world having been already too long naufeated with endless repetitions upon every ...
Page xii
... learning , and judgment , than were employed in the writing it . And the author affures thofe gentlemen , who + Parker , afterwards bishop of Oxford , wrote many trea- tifes against the diffenters , with infolence and contempt , fays ...
... learning , and judgment , than were employed in the writing it . And the author affures thofe gentlemen , who + Parker , afterwards bishop of Oxford , wrote many trea- tifes against the diffenters , with infolence and contempt , fays ...
Page xiv
... learning : from the an- notation are selected the notes figned W. Wotton ; thus Wotton appears bufied to illuftrate a work , which he laboured to condemn , and adds force to a fatire pointed against himself : as captives were bound to ...
... learning : from the an- notation are selected the notes figned W. Wotton ; thus Wotton appears bufied to illuftrate a work , which he laboured to condemn , and adds force to a fatire pointed against himself : as captives were bound to ...
Page xvii
... learning and religion . But it would be good to know what defign this reflecter was ferving , when he concludes his pamphlet with a caution to the reader , to beware of thinking the author's wit was intirely his own : furely this must ...
... learning and religion . But it would be good to know what defign this reflecter was ferving , when he concludes his pamphlet with a caution to the reader , to beware of thinking the author's wit was intirely his own : furely this must ...
Page 26
... learning and parts . It happened , that having one day dined with Mr. St. John , who was then fecretary of state , and remarked that he appeared to be much out of temper , he took the firft opportunity to fee him alone , and warned him ...
... learning and parts . It happened , that having one day dined with Mr. St. John , who was then fecretary of state , and remarked that he appeared to be much out of temper , he took the firft opportunity to fee him alone , and warned him ...
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