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
... invention at the height , and his reading fresh 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 ...
... invention at the height , and his reading fresh 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 ...
Page x
... invention of feveral years ; that he often blotted out much more than he left , and , if his papers had not been a long time out of his poffeffion , they must have ftill undergone more fevere corrections : and do they think fuch Parker ...
... invention of feveral years ; that he often blotted out much more than he left , and , if his papers had not been a long time out of his poffeffion , they must have ftill undergone more fevere corrections : and do they think fuch Parker ...
Page iii
... invention ; for I have fomewhere heard , it is a maxim , that thofe , to whom every body allows the fecond place , have an undoubted title to the first . This infallibly convinced me , that your lordship was the perfon intended by the ...
... invention ; for I have fomewhere heard , it is a maxim , that thofe , to whom every body allows the fecond place , have an undoubted title to the first . This infallibly convinced me , that your lordship was the perfon intended by the ...
Page 12
... invention , and thrice it has return- ed This I think the author fhould have omitted , it being of the very fame nature with the fchool of Lobby - borfes , if one may venture to cenfure one , who is fo fevere a cenfurer of others ...
... invention , and thrice it has return- ed This I think the author fhould have omitted , it being of the very fame nature with the fchool of Lobby - borfes , if one may venture to cenfure one , who is fo fevere a cenfurer of others ...
Page 15
... invention with hunger ; and in general , the whole work was begun , conti- nued , and ended , under a long course of phy fic , and a great want of money . Now , I do affirm , it will be abfolutely impoffible for the candid perufer to go ...
... invention with hunger ; and in general , the whole work was begun , conti- nued , and ended , under a long course of phy fic , and a great want of money . Now , I do affirm , it will be abfolutely impoffible for the candid perufer to go ...
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