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 10C. Pathurst, 1755 |
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... kingdom * celebrated his birth - day ( now approaching ) univerfally clad in their own manufacture . Is there virtue enough left in this deluded people to fave them from the brink of ruin ? If the mens opinions may be taken , the la ...
... kingdom * celebrated his birth - day ( now approaching ) univerfally clad in their own manufacture . Is there virtue enough left in this deluded people to fave them from the brink of ruin ? If the mens opinions may be taken , the la ...
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... kingdom , as if it had been one of their colonies of outcafts in America . And I obferved a little of the fame turn of fpirit in fome great men , from whom I expected bet- ter ; although , to do them juftice , it proved no point of ...
... kingdom , as if it had been one of their colonies of outcafts in America . And I obferved a little of the fame turn of fpirit in fome great men , from whom I expected bet- ter ; although , to do them juftice , it proved no point of ...
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... kingdom , procured a patent for coining 108,000l . to pass there as current money . The dean believ- ing this measure to be a vile job from the beginning to the end , and that the chief procurers of the patent were to be fharers in the ...
... kingdom , procured a patent for coining 108,000l . to pass there as current money . The dean believ- ing this measure to be a vile job from the beginning to the end , and that the chief procurers of the patent were to be fharers in the ...
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... kingdom , which hath given fuch great proofs of its loyalty , he would immediately recall it , and perhaps fhew his displeasure to fome body or other : but a word to the wife is enough . Most of you must have heard with what anger our ...
... kingdom , which hath given fuch great proofs of its loyalty , he would immediately recall it , and perhaps fhew his displeasure to fome body or other : but a word to the wife is enough . Most of you must have heard with what anger our ...
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... kingdom do abominate them . But Wood is ftill working under- hand to force his half - pence upon us ; and if he can , by the help of his friends in England , prevail fo far as to get an order , that the commissioners and collec- tors of ...
... kingdom do abominate them . But Wood is ftill working under- hand to force his half - pence upon us ; and if he can , by the help of his friends in England , prevail fo far as to get an order , that the commissioners and collec- tors of ...
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affured againſt almoſt anſwer becauſe befides beſt biſhops cafe cauſe coinage confefs confequence confiderable copper defign defire drapier Dublin England fafe faid fame favour feems felf fent feven feveral fhall fhew fhillings fhould fide fign filk fince fingle firft firſt fome fometimes foon former fpirit fubject fuch fuffered fuppofe fure gold and filver greateſt hath himſelf honour houfe houſe hundred intereft Ireland jacobites king king's kingdom kingdom of Ireland laft land leaft leaſt lefs lord majeſty majeſty's ment minifter moft moſt muft muſt nation neceffary never obferved occafion paffed parliament paſs patent pence perfons pleaſed poffible preſent propofal proteftant publick publiſhed purchaſe raiſed reaſon receive refuſed ſay ſeems ſhall ſome ſtate thefe themſelves ther theſe thofe thoſe thouſand pounds tion tory ufual univerfal unleſs uſe whereof whig whofe whole whoſe William Wood Wood's coin Wood's half-pence worfe