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
... fince the book feems calculated to live at leaft as long as our language and our taste admit no great alterations , I am content to convey fome apology along with it . The greatest part of that book was finished about thirteen years fince ...
... fince the book feems calculated to live at leaft as long as our language and our taste admit no great alterations , I am content to convey fome apology along with it . The greatest part of that book was finished about thirteen years fince ...
Page v
... fince that is , perhaps , the moft probable way to cure them , or , at least , to hinder them from farther fpreading ? Be- fides , though it was not intended for their perufal , it rallies nothing but what they preach against . It ...
... fince that is , perhaps , the moft probable way to cure them , or , at least , to hinder them from farther fpreading ? Be- fides , though it was not intended for their perufal , it rallies nothing but what they preach against . It ...
Page vi
... fince the weightief men * in the weightieft ftations are pleafed to think it a more dangerous point to laugh at those cor- ruptions in religion , which they themselves muft difapprove , than to endeavour pulling up thofe very ...
... fince the weightief men * in the weightieft ftations are pleafed to think it a more dangerous point to laugh at those cor- ruptions in religion , which they themselves muft difapprove , than to endeavour pulling up thofe very ...
Page viii
... fince the reforma- tion . To inftance only in that paffage about the three wooden machines mentioned in the in- troduction in the original manuscript there : was was a defcription of a fourth , which those , Viii AN APOLOGY .
... fince the reforma- tion . To inftance only in that paffage about the three wooden machines mentioned in the in- troduction in the original manuscript there : was was a defcription of a fourth , which those , Viii AN APOLOGY .
Page xi
... fince avowed by a perfon * , who upon fome occafions hath difcovered no ill vein of humour . It is a pity any occafion fhould put him under a neceffity of being fo hafty in his productions , which otherwise might often be entertaining ...
... fince avowed by a perfon * , who upon fome occafions hath difcovered no ill vein of humour . It is a pity any occafion fhould put him under a neceffity of being fo hafty in his productions , which otherwise might often be entertaining ...
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