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
... faid he , it must be I , or my lord Sommers . From thence I went to several other wits of my acquaintance , with no fmall hazard and wearinefs to my perfon from a prodigious number of dark , winding ftairs ; but found them all in the ...
... faid he , it must be I , or my lord Sommers . From thence I went to several other wits of my acquaintance , with no fmall hazard and wearinefs to my perfon from a prodigious number of dark , winding ftairs ; but found them all in the ...
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... faid to borrow their weapons . The hip in danger is easily underfood to be its old anti- type the commonwealth . But how to ana- lyfe the tub , was a matter of difficulty : when , after long enquiry and debate , the literal meaning was ...
... faid to borrow their weapons . The hip in danger is easily underfood to be its old anti- type the commonwealth . But how to ana- lyfe the tub , was a matter of difficulty : when , after long enquiry and debate , the literal meaning was ...
Page 17
... ( faid he ) for an overgrown floven ; and who , in the de- vil's name , I wonder , helps to make up the crowd half so much as yourself ? Don't you confider , with a pox , that you take up more room with that carcass than any five here ...
... ( faid he ) for an overgrown floven ; and who , in the de- vil's name , I wonder , helps to make up the crowd half so much as yourself ? Don't you confider , with a pox , that you take up more room with that carcass than any five here ...
Page 31
... faid , is of rot- ten wood ; and that upon two confiderations ; because it is the quality of rotten wood to give light in the dark and secondly , because E 2 its its cavities are full of worms ; which is a INTRODUCTION . 31.
... faid , is of rot- ten wood ; and that upon two confiderations ; because it is the quality of rotten wood to give light in the dark and secondly , because E 2 its its cavities are full of worms ; which is a INTRODUCTION . 31.
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... faid to be engaged in ; and like an indulgent pa- rent continue to them our affection and our bleffing . But the greatest maim given to that general reception , which the writings of our fociety have formerly received ( next to the ...
... faid to be engaged in ; and like an indulgent pa- rent continue to them our affection and our bleffing . But the greatest maim given to that general reception , which the writings of our fociety have formerly received ( next to the ...
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