The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 12G. Bell, 1897 |
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Page xviii
... allowed him to make long pedestrian visits to his mother at Leicester . In these expeditions Swift mixed much with the poorest classes of the people , lived in the humblest inns , giving an extra sixpence for a clean sheet , and ...
... allowed him to make long pedestrian visits to his mother at Leicester . In these expeditions Swift mixed much with the poorest classes of the people , lived in the humblest inns , giving an extra sixpence for a clean sheet , and ...
Page xxxi
... allowed to keep poisons in his closet , but not to send them about for cordials . " With the other great object of the party - the termination of the war - Swift was equally in accord . The belief that the war had been unnecessarily pro ...
... allowed to keep poisons in his closet , but not to send them about for cordials . " With the other great object of the party - the termination of the war - Swift was equally in accord . The belief that the war had been unnecessarily pro ...
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... allowed to have any merit : They are indeed like annuals , that grow about a young tree , and seem to vie with it for a summer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of any more . When Dr. Eachard ' writ his ...
... allowed to have any merit : They are indeed like annuals , that grow about a young tree , and seem to vie with it for a summer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of any more . When Dr. Eachard ' writ his ...
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... allowed to be vexed ; but it is an odd kind of revenge , to go to cuffs in broad day with the first he meets with , and lay the last night's injury at his door . And thus much for this discreet , candid , pious , and ingenious answerer ...
... allowed to be vexed ; but it is an odd kind of revenge , to go to cuffs in broad day with the first he meets with , and lay the last night's injury at his door . And thus much for this discreet , candid , pious , and ingenious answerer ...
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... allowed sufficient authority : For it is here to be noted , that praise was origin- ally a pension paid by the world ; but the moderns , finding the trouble and charge too great in collecting it , have lately bought out the fee - simple ...
... allowed sufficient authority : For it is here to be noted , that praise was origin- ally a pension paid by the world ; but the moderns , finding the trouble and charge too great in collecting it , have lately bought out the fee - simple ...
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