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 vii
... perfons , who are most conceived to be infected by them , would foon lay them afide and be ashamed : but he has now given over those thoughts ; fince the ... perfon person should offer determinately to fix a name upon the AN APOLOGY . vii.
... perfons , who are most conceived to be infected by them , would foon lay them afide and be ashamed : but he has now given over those thoughts ; fince the ... perfon person should offer determinately to fix a name upon the AN APOLOGY . vii.
Page xiii
... perfon , * who upon fome occafions hath discovered no ill vein of humour . It is a pity any occasion should put him un- der a neceffity of being fo hafty in his pro- ductions , which otherwise might often be entertaining . But there ...
... perfon , * who upon fome occafions hath discovered no ill vein of humour . It is a pity any occasion should put him un- der a neceffity of being fo hafty in his pro- ductions , which otherwise might often be entertaining . But there ...
Page xiv
... perfon of a graver character , and is made up of half invective , and half annotation ; † in the latter of which he hath generally fucceeded well enough . And the project at that time was not amifs to draw in readers to his pamphlet ...
... perfon of a graver character , and is made up of half invective , and half annotation ; † in the latter of which he hath generally fucceeded well enough . And the project at that time was not amifs to draw in readers to his pamphlet ...
Page xv
... perfon ; it was obferved , how he was pleased , and affect- ed to have that noble writer called his ad- versary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fufficiently mortified at the ...
... perfon ; it was obferved , how he was pleased , and affect- ed to have that noble writer called his ad- versary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fufficiently mortified at the ...
Page xvi
... and says , what he chiefly dislikes , is the defign ; what that was , I have already told , and I be- lieve there is not a perfon in England who can can understand that book , that ever ima- gined it xvi AN APOLOGY .
... and says , what he chiefly dislikes , is the defign ; what that was , I have already told , and I be- lieve there is not a perfon in England who can can understand that book , that ever ima- gined it xvi AN APOLOGY .
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