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 xxi
... wholly to his business , as a commentator upon the Tale of a tub , wherein it cannot be denied that he hath been of fome service to the public , and hath given very fair conjectures towards clearing up fome dif- ficult paffages ; but ...
... wholly to his business , as a commentator upon the Tale of a tub , wherein it cannot be denied that he hath been of fome service to the public , and hath given very fair conjectures towards clearing up fome dif- ficult paffages ; but ...
Page xxiv
... wholly out of the method and scheme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger discourse ; and he was forry to obferve the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by thofe 1 those who ...
... wholly out of the method and scheme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger discourse ; and he was forry to obferve the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by thofe 1 those who ...
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... wholly to books of history and po- etry , by which he could without intellectual labour fill his mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the fenfe of his condition . The facrifice of the future to the present , whether it be ...
... wholly to books of history and po- etry , by which he could without intellectual labour fill his mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the fenfe of his condition . The facrifice of the future to the present , whether it be ...
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... wholly without recommendation , he got himfelf reprefented as a person who had been extreamly ill used by the laft ministry , because he would not go certain lengths which they would have had him , this being in fome fort Mr. Harley's ...
... wholly without recommendation , he got himfelf reprefented as a person who had been extreamly ill used by the laft ministry , because he would not go certain lengths which they would have had him , this being in fome fort Mr. Harley's ...
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... the choir did not neglect their duty . As to his imployment at home , he feems to have had no heart to apply himself to study of any kind , C 2 but but to have refigned himself wholly to fuch amuse- ments LIFE OF Dr. SWIFT . 35.
... the choir did not neglect their duty . As to his imployment at home , he feems to have had no heart to apply himself to study of any kind , C 2 but but to have refigned himself wholly to fuch amuse- ments LIFE OF Dr. SWIFT . 35.
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againſt alfo alſo anſwer antient appears becauſe befides beſt buſineſs called cauſe church cloſe confequence converfation courſe dean Deane Swift defign defire diftinguiſhed diſcourſe diſcovered elſe eſpecially faid fame farther fays feems fenfes ferve feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide fince fir William firft firſt fome fometimes fons foon fpirit friends ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fure furniſh greateſt Gulliver's Travels hath higheſt himſelf honour horſe houſe Ireland Irenæus itſelf Jonathan Swift juſt laft laſt leaft learning leaſt lefs letter lord mafter miſtake modern moft Momus moſt muſt myſelf nature never obferved occafion Orrery paffages paffed perfon Peter pleaſe preferved preſent publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reader reaſon refolved reft refuſed ſays ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſome ſtate Swift thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thouſand tion treatiſe ufual underſtand underſtood univerfal uſed utmoſt whofe whoſe Wotton writers