The Works of Jonathan Swift ...A. Constable and Company, 1824 |
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Page 16
... resolved to proceed in a manner that should be altogether new , the world having been already too long nauseated with endless repetitions upon every subject . The abuses in religion , he proposed to set forth in the allegory of the ...
... resolved to proceed in a manner that should be altogether new , the world having been already too long nauseated with endless repetitions upon every subject . The abuses in religion , he proposed to set forth in the allegory of the ...
Page 44
... who sometimes offer such reasons and ex- cuses for publishing their works , as they ought chiefly to conceal and be ashamed of.-H. already resolved upon appealing to your future dictates , with [ 44 ] Dedication to Prince Posterity,
... who sometimes offer such reasons and ex- cuses for publishing their works , as they ought chiefly to conceal and be ashamed of.-H. already resolved upon appealing to your future dictates , with [ 44 ] Dedication to Prince Posterity,
Page 45
... resolved ( as I am told ) to keep you in almost a universal ignorance of our stu- dies , which it is your inherent birth - right to inspect . It is amazing to me , that this person should have the assurance , in the face of the sun , to ...
... resolved ( as I am told ) to keep you in almost a universal ignorance of our stu- dies , which it is your inherent birth - right to inspect . It is amazing to me , that this person should have the assurance , in the face of the sun , to ...
Page 46
... resolve to disarm this usurping maitre du palais * of his furious engines , and bring your empire hors de page . † * Comptroller . The kingdom of France had a race of kings , which they call les roys faineans , ( from their doing ...
... resolve to disarm this usurping maitre du palais * of his furious engines , and bring your empire hors de page . † * Comptroller . The kingdom of France had a race of kings , which they call les roys faineans , ( from their doing ...
Page 66
... resolved to establish , whatever argument it might cost me ; in imitation of that prudent method observed by many other philoso- phers , and great clerks , whose chief art in division has been to grow fond of some proper mystical number ...
... resolved to establish , whatever argument it might cost me ; in imitation of that prudent method observed by many other philoso- phers , and great clerks , whose chief art in division has been to grow fond of some proper mystical number ...
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