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 xix
... reafon to be ex- cepted against ; but , to deal freely , the great- eft number he should have left untouched , as never fufpecting it poffible any wrong inter- pretations could be made of them . The author observes , at the end of the ...
... reafon to be ex- cepted against ; but , to deal freely , the great- eft number he should have left untouched , as never fufpecting it poffible any wrong inter- pretations could be made of them . The author observes , at the end of the ...
Page iii
... reafon to believe , they impofed upon my ignorance ; because , when I came to read over their collections , there was not a fyllable there , but what I and every body else knew as well as themselves ; therefore I grievously fufpected a ...
... reafon to believe , they impofed upon my ignorance ; because , when I came to read over their collections , there was not a fyllable there , but what I and every body else knew as well as themselves ; therefore I grievously fufpected a ...
Page 17
... finding the trou- ble and charge too great in collecting it , have lately bought out the fee - fimple ; fince which time , the right of presentation is wholly in our- ourfelves . For this reafon it is , that , THE PREFACE . 17.
... finding the trou- ble and charge too great in collecting it , have lately bought out the fee - fimple ; fince which time , the right of presentation is wholly in our- ourfelves . For this reafon it is , that , THE PREFACE . 17.
Page 18
... reafon it is , that , when an author makes his own clogy , he uses a certain form to declare and infift upon his title , which is commonly in these or the like words , I speak without vanity ; which I think plainly fhews it to be a ...
... reafon it is , that , when an author makes his own clogy , he uses a certain form to declare and infift upon his title , which is commonly in these or the like words , I speak without vanity ; which I think plainly fhews it to be a ...
Page 19
... reafon it is conjectured by profoun der antiquaries , that the fatyrical itch , fo prevalent in this part of our island , was first brought among us from beyond the Tweed . Here may it long flourish and abound : may it furvive and ...
... reafon it is conjectured by profoun der antiquaries , that the fatyrical itch , fo prevalent in this part of our island , was first brought among us from beyond the Tweed . Here may it long flourish and abound : may it furvive and ...
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