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 x
... , under fecretary to Milton , in a little book called the Rehearsal tranfpofed . Boyle's remarks upon Bentley's differtation on the epifles of Phalaris . fuch a building is to be battered with dirt- pellets X AN APOLOGY .
... , under fecretary to Milton , in a little book called the Rehearsal tranfpofed . Boyle's remarks upon Bentley's differtation on the epifles of Phalaris . fuch a building is to be battered with dirt- pellets X AN APOLOGY .
Page xii
... called his adverfary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fuf- ficiently mortified at the term . Áll the men of wit and politenefs were immediately up in arms through indignation ...
... called his adverfary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fuf- ficiently mortified at the term . Áll the men of wit and politenefs were immediately up in arms through indignation ...
Page xix
... called a fragment , which he more wondered to fee in print than all the reft ; having been a moft imperfect fketch , with the addition of a few loofe , hints , which he once lent a gentleman , who had defigned a difcourfe on fomewhat ...
... called a fragment , which he more wondered to fee in print than all the reft ; having been a moft imperfect fketch , with the addition of a few loofe , hints , which he once lent a gentleman , who had defigned a difcourfe on fomewhat ...
Page xxi
... called . To conclude ; with those allowances above required this book fhould be read : after which , the author conceives , few things will remain , which may not be excufed in a young writer . He wrote only to the men of wit and taste ...
... called . To conclude ; with those allowances above required this book fhould be read : after which , the author conceives , few things will remain , which may not be excufed in a young writer . He wrote only to the men of wit and taste ...
Page ii
... called at a poet's chamber ( who works for my fhop ) in an alley hard by , fhewed him the tranflation , and defired his opinión , who it was that the author could mean he told me after fome con- fideration , that vanity was a thing he ...
... called at a poet's chamber ( who works for my fhop ) in an alley hard by , fhewed him the tranflation , and defired his opinión , who it was that the author could mean he told me after fome con- fideration , that vanity was a thing he ...
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