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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... mean those heavy , illiterate fcriblers , prostitute in their reputations , vicious in their lives , and ruined in their fortunes , who , to the fhame of good fenfe as well as piety , are greedily read , merely upon the ftrength of bold ...
... mean those heavy , illiterate fcriblers , prostitute in their reputations , vicious in their lives , and ruined in their fortunes , who , to the fhame of good fenfe as well as piety , are greedily read , merely upon the ftrength of bold ...
Page ix
... 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 ill mean- ings ; as if they glanced at fome tenets in ings ; AN APOLOGY .
... 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 ill mean- ings ; as if they glanced at fome tenets in ings ; AN APOLOGY .
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... mean and trivial , and full of the cant that I most defpife . It appears alfo by a letter of Mr. Pope , dated 15 Sept. 1734 , that the Dean bad ftrongly difavowed this piece , not to him only , but to Lord Carte- ret , and others , and ...
... mean and trivial , and full of the cant that I most defpife . It appears alfo by a letter of Mr. Pope , dated 15 Sept. 1734 , that the Dean bad ftrongly difavowed this piece , not to him only , but to Lord Carte- ret , and others , and ...
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... means of fubfiftence but an annuity of twenty pounds which her husband had purchased for her in England , immediately after his marriage . In this diftrefs fhe was taken with her daughter into the family of Godwin , her husband's eldest ...
... means of fubfiftence but an annuity of twenty pounds which her husband had purchased for her in England , immediately after his marriage . In this diftrefs fhe was taken with her daughter into the family of Godwin , her husband's eldest ...
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... means to convey the child on ship- board , without the knowledge of his mother or his uncle , and carried him with her to Whitehaven : at this place he continued near three years ; for when the matter was discovered , his mother fent ...
... means to convey the child on ship- board , without the knowledge of his mother or his uncle , and carried him with her to Whitehaven : at this place he continued near three years ; for when the matter was discovered , his mother fent ...
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