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 xiii
... must have still under- gone more fevere corrections : and , do they think fuch a building is to be battered with dirt - pellets , however envenomed the mouths may be that discharge them ? He hath feen the productions but of two an ...
... must have still under- gone more fevere corrections : and , do they think fuch a building is to be battered with dirt - pellets , however envenomed the mouths may be that discharge them ? He hath feen the productions but of two an ...
Page xvii
... must have had fome allay of personal animofity at least mixt with the defign of ferving the public by so useful a discovery ; and it indeed touches the author in a ten- der point ; who infifts upon it , that through the whole book he ...
... must have had fome allay of personal animofity at least mixt with the defign of ferving the public by so useful a discovery ; and it indeed touches the author in a ten- der point ; who infifts upon it , that through the whole book he ...
Page 9
... must have been after , though it is first related in the fketch , for it is faid fect . xxiii , Į that he went to Ireland after he had been two years at Moorpark , and in fect . xxiv . that his expe- dition to court was soon after the ...
... must have been after , though it is first related in the fketch , for it is faid fect . xxiii , Į that he went to Ireland after he had been two years at Moorpark , and in fect . xxiv . that his expe- dition to court was soon after the ...
Page 20
... must foon break , and factions increase ; and that the miniftry was upon too narrow a bottom , and ftood like an ifthmus between the whigs on one fide , and the violent tories on the other , a fituation in which they could not fubsist ...
... must foon break , and factions increase ; and that the miniftry was upon too narrow a bottom , and ftood like an ifthmus between the whigs on one fide , and the violent tories on the other , a fituation in which they could not fubsist ...
Page 31
... must judge for themselves ; but it feems probable that thefe accounts however contradictory may both be true , and that Swift at this time might be the Sacheveral of Ireland , followed by the mob of one faction with execrations , and by ...
... must judge for themselves ; but it feems probable that thefe accounts however contradictory may both be true , and that Swift at this time might be the Sacheveral of Ireland , followed by the mob of one faction with execrations , and by ...
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