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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... confider , that to anfwer a book effectually , requires more pains and fkill , more wit learning , and judgment , than were employed in the writing it . And the author affures thofe gentlemen , who have given themselves that trouble ...
... confider , that to anfwer a book effectually , requires more pains and fkill , more wit learning , and judgment , than were employed in the writing it . And the author affures thofe gentlemen , who have given themselves that trouble ...
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... to bear continually about him . Be pleafed to remark the length and ftrength , the fharpness and hardness of his nails and teeth : confider his 3 baneful , baneful , abominable breath , enemy to life and . PRINCE POSTERITY . ૐ.
... to bear continually about him . Be pleafed to remark the length and ftrength , the fharpness and hardness of his nails and teeth : confider his 3 baneful , baneful , abominable breath , enemy to life and . PRINCE POSTERITY . ૐ.
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... confider , that all the towardly paffages I fhall deliver in the following treatife , will grow quite out of date and relish with the firft fhifting of the prefent fcene , yet I must needs fubfcribe to the justice of this proceeding ...
... confider , that all the towardly paffages I fhall deliver in the following treatife , will grow quite out of date and relish with the firft fhifting of the prefent fcene , yet I must needs fubfcribe to the justice of this proceeding ...
Page 17
... confider , with a pox , that you take up more room with that carcass than any five here ? is not the place as free for us as for you ? bring your own guts to a reasonable compass , and be d - n'd , and then I'll engage we fhall have ...
... confider , with a pox , that you take up more room with that carcass than any five here ? is not the place as free for us as for you ? bring your own guts to a reasonable compass , and be d - n'd , and then I'll engage we fhall have ...
Page 36
... confider , because it is attended with an egg : but then , laftly , it is a nut , which , unless you chufe with ... confi- der the perfon or the parts of the owner with- in . A misfortune we undergo with fome- what lefs reluctancy ...
... confider , because it is attended with an egg : but then , laftly , it is a nut , which , unless you chufe with ... confi- der the perfon or the parts of the owner with- in . A misfortune we undergo with fome- what lefs reluctancy ...
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