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 xix
... method and fcheme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger difcourfe ; and he was forry to obferve the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by those who have anfwered this book ...
... method and fcheme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger difcourfe ; and he was forry to obferve the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by those who have anfwered this book ...
Page ii
... method , to peruse a hundred or two of dedications , and tranfcribe an abstract to be applied to your lordship ; but I was diverted by a certain accident : for , upon the covers of these papers , I casually obferved written in large ...
... method , to peruse a hundred or two of dedications , and tranfcribe an abstract to be applied to your lordship ; but I was diverted by a certain accident : for , upon the covers of these papers , I casually obferved written in large ...
Page 14
... method , than by putting himself into the circumstances and postures of life , that the writer was in upon every im- portant paffage , as it flowed from his pen : for this will introduce a parity and ftrict cor- refpondence of ideas ...
... method , than by putting himself into the circumstances and postures of life , that the writer was in upon every im- portant paffage , as it flowed from his pen : for this will introduce a parity and ftrict cor- refpondence of ideas ...
Page 27
... method observed by many other philofophers and great clerks , whofe chief art in divifion has been to grow fond of fome proper mystical number , which their imaginations have rendered facred , to a degree , that they force common reason ...
... method observed by many other philofophers and great clerks , whofe chief art in divifion has been to grow fond of fome proper mystical number , which their imaginations have rendered facred , to a degree , that they force common reason ...
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... methods by which they must exalt them- felves to a certain eminency above the inferior world . By the pulpit are adumbrated the writ- ings of our modern faints in Great Britain , as they have fpiritualifed and refined them from the ...
... methods by which they must exalt them- felves to a certain eminency above the inferior world . By the pulpit are adumbrated the writ- ings of our modern faints in Great Britain , as they have fpiritualifed and refined them from the ...
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