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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... perfon fhould offer determinately to fix a name upon the author of this difcourfe , who hath all along concealed himself from most of his * Alluding to Dr. Sharp the archbishop of York's reprefentation of the author . his neareff ...
... perfon fhould offer determinately to fix a name upon the author of this difcourfe , who hath all along concealed himself from most of his * Alluding to Dr. Sharp the archbishop of York's reprefentation of the author . his neareff ...
Page xi
... perfon * , who upon fome 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 ...
... perfon * , who upon fome 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 ...
Page xii
... 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 mortified at the term ...
... 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 mortified at the term ...
Page xiii
... is the defign ; what that was , I have already told , and I believe there is not a perfon in England , who can understand that book , Bentley , concerning Phalaris and ƃ1⁄2p , book , that ever imagined it to have been any AN APOLOGY .
... is the defign ; what that was , I have already told , and I believe there is not a perfon in England , who can understand that book , Bentley , concerning Phalaris and ƃ1⁄2p , book , that ever imagined it to have been any AN APOLOGY .
Page xvi
... perfon of wit , manners , and truth . He takes his boldness , from never having feen any fuch treatife in his life , nor heard of it before ; and he is fure it is impoffible for two writers , of different times and countries , to agree ...
... perfon of wit , manners , and truth . He takes his boldness , from never having feen any fuch treatife in his life , nor heard of it before ; and he is fure it is impoffible for two writers , of different times and countries , to agree ...
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