A Tale of a Tub: With, The Battle of the Books; And, The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, 1710Scolar Press, 1971 - 344 pages |
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... observed is , that there generally runs an Irony through the Thread of the whole Book , which the Men of Taft will obferve and diftinguish , and which will render fome Objections that have been made , very weak and infignificant . This ...
... observed is , that there generally runs an Irony through the Thread of the whole Book , which the Men of Taft will obferve and diftinguish , and which will render fome Objections that have been made , very weak and infignificant . This ...
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... observed , how he was pleased and affected to have that noble Writer call'd bis Adverfary , and it was a Point of Satyr well directed , for I have been told , Sir W. T. was fufficiently mortify'd at the Term . All the Men of Wit and ...
... observed , how he was pleased and affected to have that noble Writer call'd bis Adverfary , and it was a Point of Satyr well directed , for I have been told , Sir W. T. was fufficiently mortify'd at the Term . All the Men of Wit and ...
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... observed to come out again much dirtier , if poffi- ble , than he went in . HE was the first that ever found out the Secret of contriving a Soporiferous Medicine to be convey'd in at the Ears ; It was a Compound of Sulphur and Balm of ...
... observed to come out again much dirtier , if poffi- ble , than he went in . HE was the first that ever found out the Secret of contriving a Soporiferous Medicine to be convey'd in at the Ears ; It was a Compound of Sulphur and Balm of ...
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