The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1768 |
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... immediately changed into virtue ; but the most obvious and natural meaning is juft contrary . That we defire to conceal no act which upon re- flection we do not difcover to be vicious , be- caufe virtue is pleafed in proportion as it is ...
... immediately changed into virtue ; but the most obvious and natural meaning is juft contrary . That we defire to conceal no act which upon re- flection we do not difcover to be vicious , be- caufe virtue is pleafed in proportion as it is ...
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... immediately after his marriage . In this diftrefs fhe was taken with her daugher into the family of Godwin , her husband's eldest bro- ther , and on the 30th of November , 1667 , about seven months after her husband's death , fhe was ...
... immediately after his marriage . In this diftrefs fhe was taken with her daugher into the family of Godwin , her husband's eldest bro- ther , and on the 30th of November , 1667 , about seven months after her husband's death , fhe was ...
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... immediately re- folved to pursue . Sir William received him with great kind- 1690. ness , and Swift's firft vifit continued two years ; fir William had been ambaffador and mediator of a general peace at Nimeguen before the revolution ...
... immediately re- folved to pursue . Sir William received him with great kind- 1690. ness , and Swift's firft vifit continued two years ; fir William had been ambaffador and mediator of a general peace at Nimeguen before the revolution ...
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... immediately con- frued to favour an opinion that Swift was fir William's natural fon appears never to have hap- pened . See Swift's sketch of his orun life . From From Oxford he returned again to Moore Park , where LIFE OF Dr. SWIFT . II.
... immediately con- frued to favour an opinion that Swift was fir William's natural fon appears never to have hap- pened . See Swift's sketch of his orun life . From From Oxford he returned again to Moore Park , where LIFE OF Dr. SWIFT . II.
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... immediately croffed the channel to take pof- feffion of his new dignity , but did not stay . in Ireland more than a fortnight , being urged by an hundred letters to haften back and reconcile lord Oxford and lord Boling- broke , the ...
... immediately croffed the channel to take pof- feffion of his new dignity , but did not stay . in Ireland more than a fortnight , being urged by an hundred letters to haften back and reconcile lord Oxford and lord Boling- broke , the ...
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