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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... occafions hath difcovered no ill vein of humour . It is a pity any occafion fhould put him under a neceffity of being fo hafty in his productions , which otherwise might often be entertaining . But there were other reafons obvious ...
... occafions hath difcovered no ill vein of humour . It is a pity any occafion fhould put him under a neceffity of being fo hafty in his productions , which otherwise might often be entertaining . But there were other reafons obvious ...
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... occafion . Befides , I have been unhappily prevented in that defign by a cer- tain domeftic misfortune , in the particulars whereof , though it would be very seasonable , and * Juno and Venus , are money and a mistress ; very powerful ...
... occafion . Befides , I have been unhappily prevented in that defign by a cer- tain domeftic misfortune , in the particulars whereof , though it would be very seasonable , and * Juno and Venus , are money and a mistress ; very powerful ...
Page 40
... occafion for me and my ink , I retire willingly to draw it out into fpeculations more becoming a phi- lofopher ; having , to my unfpeakable com- fort , paffed a long life with a confcience void of offence . But to return . I am affured ...
... occafion for me and my ink , I retire willingly to draw it out into fpeculations more becoming a phi- lofopher ; having , to my unfpeakable com- fort , paffed a long life with a confcience void of offence . But to return . I am affured ...
Page 54
... occafion for in the will ; when neither the conftituent fyllables , nor much less the whole word , were there in terminis . W. Wotton . This is purgatory , whereof he fpeaks more par- ticularly hereafter ; but here , only to fhew how ...
... occafion for in the will ; when neither the conftituent fyllables , nor much less the whole word , were there in terminis . W. Wotton . This is purgatory , whereof he fpeaks more par- ticularly hereafter ; but here , only to fhew how ...
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... , of the virgin Mary , and our Saviour as a child . * That is , to take care of hell ; and , in order to do that , to fubdue and extinguish their lufts . ture occafion for fcandal , ) fays he that was A TALE OF A TUB . 53.
... , of the virgin Mary , and our Saviour as a child . * That is , to take care of hell ; and , in order to do that , to fubdue and extinguish their lufts . ture occafion for fcandal , ) fays he that was A TALE OF A TUB . 53.
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