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 viii
... once in his thoughts , that any thing he said would in the least be capable of fuch interpretations , which he will engage to de- duce full as fairly from the most innocent book in the world . And it will be obvious to every reader ...
... once in his thoughts , that any thing he said would in the least be capable of fuch interpretations , which he will engage to de- duce full as fairly from the most innocent book in the world . And it will be obvious to every reader ...
Page x
... once or twice in an age . Men would be more cautious of lofing their time in fuch an undertaking , if they did but confider , that to anfwer a book effectually , requires more pains and fkill , more wit learning , and judgment , than ...
... once or twice in an age . Men would be more cautious of lofing their time in fuch an undertaking , if they did but confider , that to anfwer a book effectually , requires more pains and fkill , more wit learning , and judgment , than ...
Page xiii
... once entered into the writer's head , nor will ( he is fure ) into that of any reader of taste and candour ; he allows two or three at most , there produced , to have been delivered un- warily ; for which he defires to plead the ex ...
... once entered into the writer's head , nor will ( he is fure ) into that of any reader of taste and candour ; he allows two or three at most , there produced , to have been delivered un- warily ; for which he defires to plead the ex ...
Page xiv
... once heard of that letter , except in this paffage of the anfwerer ; fo that the names were not borrowed , as he affirms , though they fhould happen to be the fame ; which however is odd enough , and what he hardly believes ; that of ...
... once heard of that letter , except in this paffage of the anfwerer ; fo that the names were not borrowed , as he affirms , though they fhould happen to be the fame ; which however is odd enough , and what he hardly believes ; that of ...
Page xix
... once lent a gentleman , who had defigned a difcourfe on fomewhat the fame fubject ; he never thought of it afterwards ; and it was a fufficient furprize to fee it pieced up together , wholly out of the method and fcheme he had intended ...
... once lent a gentleman , who had defigned a difcourfe on fomewhat the fame fubject ; he never thought of it afterwards ; and it was a fufficient furprize to fee it pieced up together , wholly out of the method and fcheme he had intended ...
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