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 xii
... certain great man then alive , and univerfally reverenced for every good quality that could poffibly enter into the compofition of the most accomplished perfon ; it was ob- ferved how he was pleafed , and affected to have that noble ...
... certain great man then alive , and univerfally reverenced for every good quality that could poffibly enter into the compofition of the most accomplished perfon ; it was ob- ferved how he was pleafed , and affected to have that noble ...
Page xxiii
... certain names . It will be enough for the author to affure the world , that the writer of that paper is utterly wrong in all his conjectures upon that affair . The author farther afferts , that the whole work is intirely of one hand ...
... certain names . It will be enough for the author to affure the world , that the writer of that paper is utterly wrong in all his conjectures upon that affair . The author farther afferts , that the whole work is intirely of one hand ...
Page ii
... certain accident : for , upon the covers of these papers , I casually obferved written in large letters the two following words , DE TUR DIGNISSIMO ; which , for aught I knew , might contain fome important meaning . But it unluckily ...
... certain accident : for , upon the covers of these papers , I casually obferved written in large letters the two following words , DE TUR DIGNISSIMO ; which , for aught I knew , might contain fome important meaning . But it unluckily ...
Page viii
... certain great wit had new polished and refined , or , as our pre- fent writers exprefs themselves , fitted to the bumour of the age ; as they have already done , with great felicity , to Don Quixote , Boccalini , la Bruyere , and other ...
... certain great wit had new polished and refined , or , as our pre- fent writers exprefs themselves , fitted to the bumour of the age ; as they have already done , with great felicity , to Don Quixote , Boccalini , la Bruyere , and other ...
Page 3
... certain , that in their own nature they were light enough to swim upon the furface for all eternity . Therefore the fault is in him , who tied weights fo heavy to their heels , as to deprefs them to the center . Is their very effence ...
... certain , that in their own nature they were light enough to swim upon the furface for all eternity . Therefore the fault is in him , who tied weights fo heavy to their heels , as to deprefs them to the center . Is their very effence ...
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