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 11
... preferved ; and it was decreed , that in order to prevent thefe leviathans from toffing and fporting with the commonwealth , which of itfelf is too apt to fluctuate , they they should be diverted from that game by a Tale of a Tub . And ...
... preferved ; and it was decreed , that in order to prevent thefe leviathans from toffing and fporting with the commonwealth , which of itfelf is too apt to fluctuate , they they should be diverted from that game by a Tale of a Tub . And ...
Page 15
... preferved a few examples , and hall fet them down as near as my memory has been able to retain them . 7 One begins thus : For a man to fet up for a writer , when the prefs fwarms with , & c . Another ; The tax upon paper does not lessen ...
... preferved a few examples , and hall fet them down as near as my memory has been able to retain them . 7 One begins thus : For a man to fet up for a writer , when the prefs fwarms with , & c . Another ; The tax upon paper does not lessen ...
Page xi
... preferved , we are told , that ten months after his return he took fhipping , & c . Compare the last chapter of Part I. with the first chapter of -Part II . In the following sentence , bring is fub- stituted for carry : " A gentleman ...
... preferved , we are told , that ten months after his return he took fhipping , & c . Compare the last chapter of Part I. with the first chapter of -Part II . In the following sentence , bring is fub- stituted for carry : " A gentleman ...
Page xii
... preferved himfelf fome hours longer , than by being fhut up in the hold ; but as if it was difficult to conceive , that , when a veffel is gradually finking , a man will drown fooner in the hold than upon deck , the Irish edition tells ...
... preferved himfelf fome hours longer , than by being fhut up in the hold ; but as if it was difficult to conceive , that , when a veffel is gradually finking , a man will drown fooner in the hold than upon deck , the Irish edition tells ...
Page 79
... preferved in a lineal defcent from thofe , that guarded the golden fleece . Though fome who pretended to obferve them curiously , doubted the breed had not been kept intirely chafte ; because they had dege- nerated from their ancestors ...
... preferved in a lineal defcent from thofe , that guarded the golden fleece . Though fome who pretended to obferve them curiously , doubted the breed had not been kept intirely chafte ; because they had dege- nerated from their ancestors ...
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