The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, 1784 |
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Page 72
... established by long custom , and fuffered to keep their pofts thro ' an unpardonable neglect of ftudying our own language . To point thefe out wherever they oc- curred , would have been an endless tafk , and oc- cafioned a difgufting ...
... established by long custom , and fuffered to keep their pofts thro ' an unpardonable neglect of ftudying our own language . To point thefe out wherever they oc- curred , would have been an endless tafk , and oc- cafioned a difgufting ...
Page 77
... established mode of fpeech , whereof printing ought , as nearly as poffible , to be the tranfcript . I have also taken the liberty of changing through- out an affected ufe of the third perfons fingular in verbs , by employing the ...
... established mode of fpeech , whereof printing ought , as nearly as poffible , to be the tranfcript . I have also taken the liberty of changing through- out an affected ufe of the third perfons fingular in verbs , by employing the ...
Page 133
... establish , whatever argument it might coft me ; in imitation of that prudent method observed by many other philofophers , and great clerks , whose chief art in divifion , has been to grow fond of fome pro- per mystical number , which ...
... establish , whatever argument it might coft me ; in imitation of that prudent method observed by many other philofophers , and great clerks , whose chief art in divifion , has been to grow fond of fome pro- per mystical number , which ...
Page 138
... established poft in the commonwealth of wit and learning . Their own confciences will eafily inform them , whom I mean ; nor has the world been fo negligent a looker - on , as not to obferve the continual efforts made by the focieties ...
... established poft in the commonwealth of wit and learning . Their own confciences will eafily inform them , whom I mean ; nor has the world been fo negligent a looker - on , as not to obferve the continual efforts made by the focieties ...
Page 158
... establish a command ; ( being refolved to avoid farther fcruple , as well as future occafion for fcandal ) fays he that was the scholar , I remember to have read in wills of a codicil annexed , which is indeed a part of the will , and ...
... establish a command ; ( being refolved to avoid farther fcruple , as well as future occafion for fcandal ) fays he that was the scholar , I remember to have read in wills of a codicil annexed , which is indeed a part of the will , and ...
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