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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... Swift. his neareff friends : yet several have gone a farther step , and pronounced another book * to have been the work of the fame hand with this which the author directly affirms to be a thorough mistake ; he having yet never fo much ...
... Swift. his neareff friends : yet several have gone a farther step , and pronounced another book * to have been the work of the fame hand with this which the author directly affirms to be a thorough mistake ; he having yet never fo much ...
Page xx
... Swift. an oath is not immoral , like the idea of a pro- phane or immodest speech . A man may laugh at the popifh folly of curfing people to hell , and imagine them fwearing , without any crime ; but lewd words , or dangerous opini- ons ...
... Swift. an oath is not immoral , like the idea of a pro- phane or immodest speech . A man may laugh at the popifh folly of curfing people to hell , and imagine them fwearing , without any crime ; but lewd words , or dangerous opini- ons ...
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... Swift. POSTSCRIPT . INCE the writing of this , which was a- SINuta the aw ago , a proftitute bookfeller hath published a foolish paper , under the name of Notes on the Tale of a Tub , with some ac- count of the author ; and with an ...
... Swift. POSTSCRIPT . INCE the writing of this , which was a- SINuta the aw ago , a proftitute bookfeller hath published a foolish paper , under the name of Notes on the Tale of a Tub , with some ac- count of the author ; and with an ...
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... Swift. Treatifes written by the fame author , moft of them mentioned in the following difcourfes ; · which will be speedily published .. A Character of the prefent set of wits in this ifland . A panegyrical effay upon the number THREE ...
... Swift. Treatifes written by the fame author , moft of them mentioned in the following difcourfes ; · which will be speedily published .. A Character of the prefent set of wits in this ifland . A panegyrical effay upon the number THREE ...
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... Swift. baneful , abominable breath , enemy to life and . matter , infectious and corrupting : and then reflect , whether it be poffible for any mortal ink and paper of this generation to make a fuitable refiftance . Oh ! that your ...
... Swift. baneful , abominable breath , enemy to life and . matter , infectious and corrupting : and then reflect , whether it be poffible for any mortal ink and paper of this generation to make a fuitable refiftance . Oh ! that your ...
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