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 iii
... thofe , who approve it , are a great majority among the men of tafte : yet there have been two or three treatises written exprefly against it , befides many others that have flirted at it occafionally , with- out one fyllable having ...
... thofe , who approve it , are a great majority among the men of tafte : yet there have been two or three treatises written exprefly against it , befides many others that have flirted at it occafionally , with- out one fyllable having ...
Page iv
... thofe in learning he chose to in- troduce by way of digreffions . He was then a young gentleman much in the world , and wrote to the tafte of thofe who were like himself ; therefore , in order to allure them , he gave a liberty to his ...
... thofe in learning he chose to in- troduce by way of digreffions . He was then a young gentleman much in the world , and wrote to the tafte of thofe who were like himself ; therefore , in order to allure them , he gave a liberty to his ...
Page v
... thofe heavy , illiterate fcribblers , pro- ftitute in their reputations , vicious in their lives , and ruined in their fortunes ; who , to the shame of good fenfe ... thofe thofe terrors , that religion tells men will be the AN APOLOGY . V.
... thofe heavy , illiterate fcribblers , pro- ftitute in their reputations , vicious in their lives , and ruined in their fortunes ; who , to the shame of good fenfe ... thofe thofe terrors , that religion tells men will be the AN APOLOGY . V.
Page vi
... thofe thoughts : fince the weightief men * in the weightieft ftations are pleafed to think it a more dangerous point to laugh at those cor- ruptions in religion , which they themselves muft difapprove , than to endeavour pulling up thofe ...
... thofe thoughts : fince the weightief men * in the weightieft ftations are pleafed to think it a more dangerous point to laugh at those cor- ruptions in religion , which they themselves muft difapprove , than to endeavour pulling up thofe ...
Page vii
... thofe paffages in this difcourfe , which ap- pear mot liable to objection , are what they call parodies , where the author perfonates the ftyle and manner of other writers , whom he has a mind to expofe . I fhall produce one inftance ...
... thofe paffages in this difcourfe , which ap- pear mot liable to objection , are what they call parodies , where the author perfonates the ftyle and manner of other writers , whom he has a mind to expofe . I fhall produce one inftance ...
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