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 ix
... whole book , which the men of taste will obferve and diftinguish , and which will render fome objections , that have been made , very weak and infignificant . This apology being chiefly intended for the fatisfaction of future readers ...
... whole book , which the men of taste will obferve and diftinguish , and which will render fome objections , that have been made , very weak and infignificant . This apology being chiefly intended for the fatisfaction of future readers ...
Page xiv
... whole book he has not bor- rowed one fingle hint from any writer in the world ; and he thought , of all criticifins , that would never have been one . He conceived , it was never difputed to be an original , what- ever faults it might ...
... whole book he has not bor- rowed one fingle hint from any writer in the world ; and he thought , of all criticifins , that would never have been one . He conceived , it was never difputed to be an original , what- ever faults it might ...
Page xv
... one of greater moment ? I know nothing more contemptible in a writer than the character of a plagiary ; which he here fixes at a venture ; and this not for a paffage , but 1 but a whole difcourfe , taken out from ano- AN APOLOGY . XV.
... one of greater moment ? I know nothing more contemptible in a writer than the character of a plagiary ; which he here fixes at a venture ; and this not for a paffage , but 1 but a whole difcourfe , taken out from ano- AN APOLOGY . XV.
Page xvi
... whole difcourfe , taken out from ano- ther book , only mutatis mutandis . The au- thor is as much in the dark about this as the anfwerer , and will imitate him by an affir- mation at random , that , if there be a word of truth in this ...
... whole difcourfe , taken out from ano- ther book , only mutatis mutandis . The au- thor is as much in the dark about this as the anfwerer , and will imitate him by an affir- mation at random , that , if there be a word of truth in this ...
Page xxiii
... whole work is intirely of one hand , which every reader of judgment will eafily discover : the gentleman , who gave the copy to the bookfeller , being a friend of the author , and ufing no other li- berties , befides that of expunging ...
... whole work is intirely of one hand , which every reader of judgment will eafily discover : the gentleman , who gave the copy to the bookfeller , being a friend of the author , and ufing no other li- berties , befides that of expunging ...
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