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 viii
... give that paffage an application : but this is enough to direct those who may have over- looked the author's intention . There are three or four other paffages , which prejudiced or ignorant readers have drawn by great force to hint at ...
... give that paffage an application : but this is enough to direct those who may have over- looked the author's intention . There are three or four other paffages , which prejudiced or ignorant readers have drawn by great force to hint at ...
Page xiv
... give it up , and defires his readers will fubtract as much as they placed upon that ac count ; at the fame time protesting folemnly , that he never once heard of that letter , except in this paffage of the anfwerer ; fo that the names ...
... give it up , and defires his readers will fubtract as much as they placed upon that ac count ; at the fame time protesting folemnly , that he never once heard of that letter , except in this paffage of the anfwerer ; fo that the names ...
Page xvii
... give them any thanks for endeavouring at . The part of Mi- nellius or Farnaby would have fallen in with his genius , and might have been ferviceable to many readers , who cannot enter into the ab- frufer parts of that discourse ; but ...
... give them any thanks for endeavouring at . The part of Mi- nellius or Farnaby would have fallen in with his genius , and might have been ferviceable to many readers , who cannot enter into the ab- frufer parts of that discourse ; but ...
Page xxi
... give him the vanity of telling his name , wherein the world , with all its wife conjectures , is yet very much in the dark ; which circumftance is no difagree- able able amusement either to the public or him- felf . AN APOLOGY . XXI.
... give him the vanity of telling his name , wherein the world , with all its wife conjectures , is yet very much in the dark ; which circumftance is no difagree- able able amusement either to the public or him- felf . AN APOLOGY . XXI.
Page ii
... give your lordship a lift of your own virtues , and at the fame time be very unwilling to offend your modefty ; but chiefly , I should celebrate your liberality towards men of great parts and small fortunes , and give you broad hints ...
... give your lordship a lift of your own virtues , and at the fame time be very unwilling to offend your modefty ; but chiefly , I should celebrate your liberality towards men of great parts and small fortunes , and give you broad hints ...
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