The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1768 |
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... confider the ground before us , and then perceive that at the end of the course are clouds and darknefs ; that the grave will foon inter- cept our pursuit of temporal felicity , and that , if we cannot stretch to the goal that is beyond ...
... confider the ground before us , and then perceive that at the end of the course are clouds and darknefs ; that the grave will foon inter- cept our pursuit of temporal felicity , and that , if we cannot stretch to the goal that is beyond ...
Page 65
... confider his fervants as poor flaves , to whofe fervice Orrery , he had a right , in confideration merely of his money , and owed them no reciprocal obligation . 200 . He had a fervant whom he ufed to call Saunders , that lived long ...
... confider his fervants as poor flaves , to whofe fervice Orrery , he had a right , in confideration merely of his money , and owed them no reciprocal obligation . 200 . He had a fervant whom he ufed to call Saunders , that lived long ...
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... confider , that to answer a book effectually , requires more pains and skill , more wit , learning , and judgment , then were employed in the writing it . And the author affures thofe gentlemen , who Parker , afterwards bishop of Oxford ...
... confider , that to answer a book effectually , requires more pains and skill , more wit , learning , and judgment , then were employed in the writing it . And the author affures thofe gentlemen , who Parker , afterwards bishop of Oxford ...
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... confider his baneful , abomi- nable breath , enemy to life and matter , infectious and corrupting : and then re- flect , whether it be poffible for any mortal ink and paper of this generation to make a fuitable refiftance . Oh ! that ...
... confider his baneful , abomi- nable breath , enemy to life and matter , infectious and corrupting : and then re- flect , whether it be poffible for any mortal ink and paper of this generation to make a fuitable refiftance . Oh ! that ...
Page 28
... confider , that all the towardly paffages I fhall deliver in the following treatise , will grow quite out of date and relish with the firft fhifting of the present scene , yet I must needs fubfcribe to the justice of this proceeding ...
... confider , that all the towardly paffages I fhall deliver in the following treatise , will grow quite out of date and relish with the firft fhifting of the present scene , yet I must needs fubfcribe to the justice of this proceeding ...
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