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 v
... most ridi- culous manner ; fince that is , perhaps , the moft probable way to cure them , or , at least , to hinder them from farther fpreading ? Be- fides , though it was not intended for their perufal , it rallies nothing but what ...
... most ridi- culous manner ; fince that is , perhaps , the moft probable way to cure them , or , at least , to hinder them from farther fpreading ? Be- fides , though it was not intended for their perufal , it rallies nothing but what ...
Page vi
... most conceived to be infected by them , would foon lay them aside and be afhamed : but he has now given over thofe thoughts : fince the weightief men * in the weightieft ftations are pleafed to think it a more dangerous point to laugh ...
... most conceived to be infected by them , would foon lay them aside and be afhamed : but he has now given over thofe thoughts : fince the weightief men * in the weightieft ftations are pleafed to think it a more dangerous point to laugh ...
Page viii
... most innocent book in the world . And it will be obvious to every reader , that this was not any part of his fcheme or defign , the abuses he notes be- ing fuch as all Church - of - England men agree in ; nor was it proper for his ...
... most innocent book in the world . And it will be obvious to every reader , that this was not any part of his fcheme or defign , the abuses he notes be- ing fuch as all Church - of - England men agree in ; nor was it proper for his ...
Page xii
... most accomplished perfon ; it was ob- ferved how he was pleafed , and affected to have that noble writer called his adverfary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fuf- ficiently ...
... most accomplished perfon ; it was ob- ferved how he was pleafed , and affected to have that noble writer called his adverfary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fuf- ficiently ...
Page xiii
... most , there produced , to have been delivered un- warily ; for which he defires to plead the ex- cufe offered already , of his youth , and frank- ness of speech , and his papers being out of his power at the time they were published ...
... most , there produced , to have been delivered un- warily ; for which he defires to plead the ex- cufe offered already , of his youth , and frank- ness of speech , and his papers being out of his power at the time they were published ...
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