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 xviii
... kind of revenge to go to cuffs in broad day with the first he meets , and lay the last night's injury at his door . And thus much for this difcreet , candid , pious , and ingenious anfwerer . How the author came to be without his pa ...
... kind of revenge to go to cuffs in broad day with the first he meets , and lay the last night's injury at his door . And thus much for this difcreet , candid , pious , and ingenious anfwerer . How the author came to be without his pa ...
Page iii
... I and every body else knew as well as themselves ; therefore I grievously fufpected a cheat ; and that thefe authors of mine ftole and transcribed every C 2 every word from the univerfal report of man- kind . DEDICATION . ili.
... I and every body else knew as well as themselves ; therefore I grievously fufpected a cheat ; and that thefe authors of mine ftole and transcribed every C 2 every word from the univerfal report of man- kind . DEDICATION . ili.
Page iv
... kind . So that I look upon myself , as fifty fhillings out of pocket to no manner of pur- pofe . If , by altering the title , I could make the fame materials ferve for another dedication ( as my betters have done ) it would help to make ...
... kind . So that I look upon myself , as fifty fhillings out of pocket to no manner of pur- pofe . If , by altering the title , I could make the fame materials ferve for another dedication ( as my betters have done ) it would help to make ...
Page 5
... kind , feems to be an affertion fo bold and fo falfe , that I have been fometime thinking , the con- trary may almost be proved by uncontroulable demonftration . It is true indeed , that al- ' though their numbers be vaft , and their ...
... kind , feems to be an affertion fo bold and fo falfe , that I have been fometime thinking , the con- trary may almost be proved by uncontroulable demonftration . It is true indeed , that al- ' though their numbers be vaft , and their ...
Page 20
... kind ; but , I think , with a great deal of injustice , the folution being eafy and natural : for , the materials of panegyric , being very few in number , have been long fince exhaufted . For , as health is but one thing , and has been ...
... kind ; but , I think , with a great deal of injustice , the folution being eafy and natural : for , the materials of panegyric , being very few in number , have been long fince exhaufted . For , as health is but one thing , and has been ...
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