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 ix
... common anfwerers to books , which are allowed to have any merit : they are indeed like annuals , that grow about a young tree , and feem to vie with it for a fummer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of ...
... common anfwerers to books , which are allowed to have any merit : they are indeed like annuals , that grow about a young tree , and feem to vie with it for a fummer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of ...
Page x
... common hands , nor to be hoped for above once or twice in an age . Men would be more cautious of lofing their time in fuch an undertaking , if they did but confider , that to anfwer a book effectually , requires more pains and fkill ...
... common hands , nor to be hoped for above once or twice in an age . Men would be more cautious of lofing their time in fuch an undertaking , if they did but confider , that to anfwer a book effectually , requires more pains and fkill ...
Page iv
... common topics : I confefs , I have neither confcience , nor countenance to do it . Be- cause , there is no virtue , either of a public or private life , which fome circumftances of your own have not often produced upon the ftage of the ...
... common topics : I confefs , I have neither confcience , nor countenance to do it . Be- cause , there is no virtue , either of a public or private life , which fome circumftances of your own have not often produced upon the ftage of the ...
Page 17
... common privileges of a writer , the benefit whereof , I hope , there will be no reason to doubt ; particularly , that , where I am not understood , it fhall be con- cluded , that fomething very useful and pro- found is couched ...
... common privileges of a writer , the benefit whereof , I hope , there will be no reason to doubt ; particularly , that , where I am not understood , it fhall be con- cluded , that fomething very useful and pro- found is couched ...
Page 27
... common acceptation , a feat well boltered and cufbioned , for the repofe of old and gouty limbs : fenes ut in otia tuta re- cedant . Fortune being indebted to them this part of retaliation , that , as formerly they have long talked ...
... common acceptation , a feat well boltered and cufbioned , for the repofe of old and gouty limbs : fenes ut in otia tuta re- cedant . Fortune being indebted to them this part of retaliation , that , as formerly they have long talked ...
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