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 iv
... body of the difcourfe : thofe in learning he chose to in- troduce by way of digreffions . He was then a young gentleman much in the world , and wrote to the tafte of thofe who were like himself ; therefore , in order to allure them , he ...
... body of the difcourfe : thofe in learning he chose to in- troduce by way of digreffions . He was then a young gentleman much in the world , and wrote to the tafte of thofe who were like himself ; therefore , in order to allure them , he ...
Page vi
... body are not always very nice in diftinguishing between their enemies and their friends . Had the author's intentions met with a more candid interpretation from fome , whom out of respect he forbears to name , he might have been ...
... body are not always very nice in diftinguishing between their enemies and their friends . Had the author's intentions met with a more candid interpretation from fome , whom out of respect he forbears to name , he might have been ...
Page xiii
... body of the book . This anfwerer has been pleased to find fault with about a dozen paffages , which the au- thor will not be at the trouble of defending , farther than by affuring the reader , that , for the greater part , the reflecter ...
... body of the book . This anfwerer has been pleased to find fault with about a dozen paffages , which the au- thor will not be at the trouble of defending , farther than by affuring the reader , that , for the greater part , the reflecter ...
Page xvi
... body else . So that if ever any defign was unfortunately executed , it must be that of this answerer ; who , when he would have it obferved , that the author's wit is none of his own , is able to produce but three instances , two of ...
... body else . So that if ever any defign was unfortunately executed , it must be that of this answerer ; who , when he would have it obferved , that the author's wit is none of his own , is able to produce but three instances , two of ...
Page xviii
... body , I know not who , in the country ; to which can only be returned , that he is abfo- lutely mistaken in all his conjectures ; and furely conjectures are , at beft , too light a pretence to allow a man to affign a name in public ...
... body , I know not who , in the country ; to which can only be returned , that he is abfo- lutely mistaken in all his conjectures ; and furely conjectures are , at beft , too light a pretence to allow a man to affign a name in public ...
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