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 viii
... the world , that , religion being * Letter of enthusiasm , supposed to have been written by Col , Hunter : fee Swift's letter to him , in the last of thefe volumes . the the best of things , its corruptions are likely to viii AN APOLOGY .
... the world , that , religion being * Letter of enthusiasm , supposed to have been written by Col , Hunter : fee Swift's letter to him , in the last of thefe volumes . the the best of things , its corruptions are likely to viii AN APOLOGY .
Page ix
... things , its corruptions are likely to be the worst . There is one thing which the judicious reader cannot but have obferved , that fome of those paffages in this discourse , which appear moft liable to objection , are what they call ...
... things , its corruptions are likely to be the worst . There is one thing which the judicious reader cannot but have obferved , that fome of those paffages in this discourse , which appear moft liable to objection , are what they call ...
Page x
... thing he faid would in the leaft be capable of fuch interpreta- tions , which he will engage to deduce full as fairly from the most innocent book in the world . And it will be obvious to every reader , that this was not any part of his ...
... thing he faid would in the leaft be capable of fuch interpreta- tions , which he will engage to deduce full as fairly from the most innocent book in the world . And it will be obvious to every reader , that this was not any part of his ...
Page xi
... thing to be obferved is , that there generally runs an irony through the thread of the whole book , which the men of taste will obferve and diftinguish , and which will render fome objections , that have been made , very weak and ...
... thing to be obferved is , that there generally runs an irony through the thread of the whole book , which the men of taste will obferve and diftinguish , and which will render fome objections , that have been made , very weak and ...
Page xiv
... thing of it . + Wotton's defence of his reflections upon ancient and modern 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 ...
... thing of it . + Wotton's defence of his reflections upon ancient and modern 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 ...
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