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 vi
... foon lay them aside and be afhamed : but he has now given over thofe thoughts : 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 ...
... foon lay them aside and be afhamed : but he has now given over thofe thoughts : 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 ...
Page 27
... foon acknowledge the prefent practice exactly correfpondent to the primitive institution , and both to answer the etymology of the name , which in the Phænician tongue is a word of great fignifica tion , importing , if literally ...
... foon acknowledge the prefent practice exactly correfpondent to the primitive institution , and both to answer the etymology of the name , which in the Phænician tongue is a word of great fignifica tion , importing , if literally ...
Page 44
... foon with great fagacity gueffing out the reafon , they quickly began to improve in the good quali ties of the town : they writ and rallied , and rhymed , and fung , and faid , and faid no- thing : they drank , and fought , and whored ...
... foon with great fagacity gueffing out the reafon , they quickly began to improve in the good quali ties of the town : they writ and rallied , and rhymed , and fung , and faid , and faid no- thing : they drank , and fought , and whored ...
Page 51
... foon difcovered their want by fad experience , meeting in their walks with forty mortifications and indignities . If they went to the play - house , the door - keeper fhewed them into the twelve - penny gallery . If they called a boat ...
... foon difcovered their want by fad experience , meeting in their walks with forty mortifications and indignities . If they went to the play - house , the door - keeper fhewed them into the twelve - penny gallery . If they called a boat ...
Page 54
... foon as ever they could procure money to buy it . By G that is very true , cries the other I remember it perfectly well , faid the third . And fo without more ado they got the largest gold - lace in the parish , and walked about as fine ...
... foon as ever they could procure money to buy it . By G that is very true , cries the other I remember it perfectly well , faid the third . And fo without more ado they got the largest gold - lace in the parish , and walked about as fine ...
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