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 iii
... dif- courfe hath met with , that thofe , who approve it , are a great majority among the men of tafte : yet there have been two or three treatises written exprefly against it , befides many others that have flirted at it occafionally ...
... dif- courfe hath met with , that thofe , who approve it , are a great majority among the men of tafte : yet there have been two or three treatises written exprefly against it , befides many others that have flirted at it occafionally ...
Page iv
... 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 gave a ...
... 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 gave a ...
Page vi
... upon the author of this difcourfe , who hath all along concealed himself from most of his * Alluding to Dr. Sharp the archbishop of York's reprefentation of the author . his neareff friends : yet several have gone a farther vi AN APOLOGY .
... upon the author of this difcourfe , who hath all along concealed himself from most of his * Alluding to Dr. Sharp the archbishop of York's reprefentation of the author . his neareff friends : yet several have gone a farther vi AN APOLOGY .
Page vii
... difcourfe : a plain instance how little truth there often is in general fur- mises , or in conjectures drawn from a fimili- tude of ftyle , or way of thinking . Had the author written a book to expofe the abuses in law , or in phyfic ...
... difcourfe : a plain instance how little truth there often is in general fur- mises , or in conjectures drawn from a fimili- tude of ftyle , or way of thinking . Had the author written a book to expofe the abuses in law , or in phyfic ...
Page ix
... difcourfe , which are already funk into wafte paper and oblivion , after the ufual fate 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 ...
... difcourfe , which are already funk into wafte paper and oblivion , after the ufual fate 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 ...
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