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 xvii
... wholly to his bufinefs , as a commentator upon the Tale of a Tub , wherein it cannot be denied that he hath been of fome fervice to the public , and hath given very fair conjectures towards clearing up fome difficult paffages ; but it ...
... wholly to his bufinefs , as a commentator upon the Tale of a Tub , wherein it cannot be denied that he hath been of fome fervice to the public , and hath given very fair conjectures towards clearing up fome difficult paffages ; but it ...
Page xix
... wholly out of the method and fcheme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger difcourfe ; and he was forry to obferve the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by those who have ...
... wholly out of the method and fcheme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger difcourfe ; and he was forry to obferve the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by those who have ...
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... 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 lordship's protection of them ...
... 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 lordship's protection of them ...
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... wholly illiterate , and has hardly pro- duced one writer upon any subject . I know very well , that when your highness shall come to riper years , and have gone through the learning of antiquity , you will be too curious to neglect ...
... wholly illiterate , and has hardly pro- duced one writer upon any subject . I know very well , that when your highness shall come to riper years , and have gone through the learning of antiquity , you will be too curious to neglect ...
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... wholly intercept and devour them . To affirm that our age is altogether un- learned , and devoid of writers in any kind , feems to be an affertion fo bold and fo falfe , that I have been fometime thinking , the con- trary may almost be ...
... wholly intercept and devour them . To affirm that our age is altogether un- learned , and devoid of writers in any kind , feems to be an affertion fo bold and fo falfe , that I have been fometime thinking , the con- trary may almost be ...
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