The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1768 |
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... true , at the foot of the page . The notes which have been published with former editions have for the most part been retained , because they were intended to have been written , if not by the Dean , yet by fome friend who knew his ...
... true , at the foot of the page . The notes which have been published with former editions have for the most part been retained , because they were intended to have been written , if not by the Dean , yet by fome friend who knew his ...
Page 9
... true that the English nobility are councellors to the king and kingdom by right of birth , yet it is not true that they are born councellors . Ibid . Chap . VI . It appears by many paffages , that the ftature of the Brobdingnagians was ...
... true that the English nobility are councellors to the king and kingdom by right of birth , yet it is not true that they are born councellors . Ibid . Chap . VI . It appears by many paffages , that the ftature of the Brobdingnagians was ...
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... true , for there are not quite two months between the date of his teftimonium , and his taking his maf- ter's degree . Befides in the letter to his uncle juft mentioned , he fays , I am afhamed to be more obliged in a few weeks to ...
... true , for there are not quite two months between the date of his teftimonium , and his taking his maf- ter's degree . Befides in the letter to his uncle juft mentioned , he fays , I am afhamed to be more obliged in a few weeks to ...
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... true , and equally evident , that Swift had no expectations of advantage from his connexion with thefe perfons , that he knew they could not long preferve their power , that he did not honour it while it lafted , and that he difdained ...
... true , and equally evident , that Swift had no expectations of advantage from his connexion with thefe perfons , that he knew they could not long preferve their power , that he did not honour it while it lafted , and that he difdained ...
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... true dignity of mind , for he exacted nothing which , in his turn , he did not pay , nor asked more for himself than for others , whose pretenfions or circumftances were the fame . When he was defired by lord Oxford to intro- duce ...
... true dignity of mind , for he exacted nothing which , in his turn , he did not pay , nor asked more for himself than for others , whose pretenfions or circumftances were the fame . When he was defired by lord Oxford to intro- duce ...
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