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 1C. Bathurst, 1764 |
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Page xiv
... Peter , Martin , and Jack , are borrowed from a letter of the late * duke of Buckingham . Whatever wit is con- tained in those three names , the author is con- tent to give it up , and defires his readers will fubtract as much as they ...
... Peter , Martin , and Jack , are borrowed from a letter of the late * duke of Buckingham . Whatever wit is con- tained in those three names , the author is con- tent to give it up , and defires his readers will fubtract as much as they ...
Page xv
... Peter's Banter ( as he calls it in his Alfatia phrafe ) upon tranfubftantiation , which is taken from the fame duke's conference with an Irish priest , where a cork is turned into a horfe . This the author confeffes to have feen about ...
... Peter's Banter ( as he calls it in his Alfatia phrafe ) upon tranfubftantiation , which is taken from the fame duke's conference with an Irish priest , where a cork is turned into a horfe . This the author confeffes to have feen about ...
Page xix
... Peter is frequently made to repeat oaths and curfes . Every reader ob- ferves , it was neceffary to know that Peter did fwear and curfe . The oaths are not prin- ted out , but only fuppofed ; and the idea of an an oath is not immoral ...
... Peter is frequently made to repeat oaths and curfes . Every reader ob- ferves , it was neceffary to know that Peter did fwear and curfe . The oaths are not prin- ted out , but only fuppofed ; and the idea of an an oath is not immoral ...
Page 42
... Peter , Martin , and Jack , Popery , the Church of England , and our Proteftant Diffenters are defigned . W. Wotton . 1 2 By his coats , which he gave his fons , the gar ment of the Ifraelites . W. Wotton . An error ( with fubmiffion ) ...
... Peter , Martin , and Jack , Popery , the Church of England , and our Proteftant Diffenters are defigned . W. Wotton . 1 2 By his coats , which he gave his fons , the gar ment of the Ifraelites . W. Wotton . An error ( with fubmiffion ) ...
Page 48
... which were en- tertained The first part of the Tale is the hiftory of Peter ; thereby popery is expofed : every body knows the papifts tertained with great vogue ; as particularly , the faculties 48 A TALE OF A TUB .
... which were en- tertained The first part of the Tale is the hiftory of Peter ; thereby popery is expofed : every body knows the papifts tertained with great vogue ; as particularly , the faculties 48 A TALE OF A TUB .
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