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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... prefent set of wits in this ifland . A panegyrical effay upon the number THREE . A differtation upon the principal produc- tions of Grub - Street . Lectures upon a dissection of human nature . A panegyric upon the world . An analytical ...
... prefent set of wits in this ifland . A panegyrical effay upon the number THREE . A differtation upon the principal produc- tions of Grub - Street . Lectures upon a dissection of human nature . A panegyric upon the world . An analytical ...
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... prefent writers ; and being wholly free from that flavery , which bookfellers ufually lie under , to the caprices of authors ; I think it a wife piece of prefumption to inscribe these papers to your lordship , and to implore your ...
... prefent writers ; and being wholly free from that flavery , which bookfellers ufually lie under , to the caprices of authors ; I think it a wife piece of prefumption to inscribe these papers to your lordship , and to implore your ...
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... prefent . Though per- haps I fhall not be apt to reckon much merit to your lordship upon that score , who having C 3 been * In 1701 , lord Sommers was impeached by the commons , who either finding their proofs defective , or for other ...
... prefent . Though per- haps I fhall not be apt to reckon much merit to your lordship upon that score , who having C 3 been * In 1701 , lord Sommers was impeached by the commons , who either finding their proofs defective , or for other ...
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... pre- fent writers exprefs themselves , fitted to the bumour of the age ; as they have already done , with great felicity , to Don Quixote , Boccalini , la Bruyere , and other authors . However , I thought it fairer dealing to offer the ...
... pre- fent writers exprefs themselves , fitted to the bumour of the age ; as they have already done , with great felicity , to Don Quixote , Boccalini , la Bruyere , and other authors . However , I thought it fairer dealing to offer the ...
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... prefent your highness with the fruits of a very few leifure hours , ftolen from the short intervals of a world of business , and of an employment quite alien from fuch a- mufements as this : the poor production of that refuse of time ...
... prefent your highness with the fruits of a very few leifure hours , ftolen from the short intervals of a world of business , and of an employment quite alien from fuch a- mufements as this : the poor production of that refuse of time ...
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