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
... in his head . By the affiftance of fome thinking , and much converfation , he had endeavoured to ftrip himself of as many real prejudices as he could ; VOL . I. B2 I fay 1 I fay real ones , becaufe , under the { iii 1.
... in his head . By the affiftance of fome thinking , and much converfation , he had endeavoured to ftrip himself of as many real prejudices as he could ; VOL . I. B2 I fay 1 I fay real ones , becaufe , under the { iii 1.
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... himself ; therefore , in order to allure them , he gave a liberty to his pen , which might not fuit with maturer years , or graver characters , and which he could have eafily corrected with a very few blots , had he been master of his ...
... himself ; therefore , in order to allure them , he gave a liberty to his pen , which might not fuit with maturer years , or graver characters , and which he could have eafily corrected with a very few blots , had he been master of his ...
Page vi
... 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 .
... 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 .
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... himself : as captives were bound to the chariot - wheel of the victor , and compelled to increase the pomp of his triumph , whom they had in vain attempted to defeat . over their contempt by the confequences they apprehended from fuch ...
... himself : as captives were bound to the chariot - wheel of the victor , and compelled to increase the pomp of his triumph , whom they had in vain attempted to defeat . over their contempt by the confequences they apprehended from fuch ...
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... himself ; for he allows the tale was written in 1697 ; and , I think , that pamphlet was not printed in many years after . It was neceffary that corruption fhould have fome allegory as well as the reft , and the author invented the pro ...
... himself ; for he allows the tale was written in 1697 ; and , I think , that pamphlet was not printed in many years after . It was neceffary that corruption fhould have fome allegory as well as the reft , and the author invented the pro ...
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