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... and had promised and appointed to see him , and that Steele never came . Harrison , whom Mr. Addison 1 In a pamphlet called " The Crisis . " recommended to me , I have introduced to the Secretary xxxviii BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
... and had promised and appointed to see him , and that Steele never came . Harrison , whom Mr. Addison 1 In a pamphlet called " The Crisis . " recommended to me , I have introduced to the Secretary xxxviii BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
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... called " The Crisis , " while the House of Lords , in which the Whig party predominated , retaliated by offering a reward for the discovery of the author of Swift's " Public Spirit of the Whigs , " on the ground of some reflections it ...
... called " The Crisis , " while the House of Lords , in which the Whig party predominated , retaliated by offering a reward for the discovery of the author of Swift's " Public Spirit of the Whigs , " on the ground of some reflections it ...
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... called himself an Irishman ; he declared that he had been born , or , as he elsewhere expressed it , " dropped " in Ireland by " a perfect accident , " and thus , as he said , " I am a Teague or an Irishman , or what people please ...
... called himself an Irishman ; he declared that he had been born , or , as he elsewhere expressed it , " dropped " in Ireland by " a perfect accident , " and thus , as he said , " I am a Teague or an Irishman , or what people please ...
Page lxxx
... called into the best ; and not die here in a rage like a poisoned rat in a hole . " He more than once tried to obtain some English prefer- ment instead of his deanery . With this object , on the death of George I. , he made an assiduous ...
... called into the best ; and not die here in a rage like a poisoned rat in a hole . " He more than once tried to obtain some English prefer- ment instead of his deanery . With this object , on the death of George I. , he made an assiduous ...
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... called man , " and he declared that he wrote “ Gulliver " to vex the world rather than to divert it . " It was his deliberate opinion that man is hopelessly corrupt , that the evil preponderates over the good , and that life itself is a ...
... called man , " and he declared that he wrote “ Gulliver " to vex the world rather than to divert it . " It was his deliberate opinion that man is hopelessly corrupt , that the evil preponderates over the good , and that life itself is a ...
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