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Page xxvi
... things a Church- man , and was accustomed to subordinate every other consideration to the furtherance of Church interests . In each period of his life this intense ecclesiastical sentiment appears . Coarse and irreverent as are many ...
... things a Church- man , and was accustomed to subordinate every other consideration to the furtherance of Church interests . In each period of his life this intense ecclesiastical sentiment appears . Coarse and irreverent as are many ...
Page xxxviii
... things tended to the dissolution of the friendship . There was never an open breach , but their intercourse lost its old cordiality . " I went to Mr. Addison's , " wrote Swift in his journal , " and dined with him at his lodgings . I ...
... things tended to the dissolution of the friendship . There was never an open breach , but their intercourse lost its old cordiality . " I went to Mr. Addison's , " wrote Swift in his journal , " and dined with him at his lodgings . I ...
Page xlii
... things are the many instances of concealed religion that were discovered by his friends . Delany had been weeks in his house before he found out that he had family prayers every morning with his servants . In London he rose early to ...
... things are the many instances of concealed religion that were discovered by his friends . Delany had been weeks in his house before he found out that he had family prayers every morning with his servants . In London he rose early to ...
Page lvii
... things will be as you desire . " He tells her that she has no real reason for her melancholy , " if all the ... thing in you and me is that we are too hard to please ; and << • whether we have not made ourselves so is the BIOGRAPHICAL ...
... things will be as you desire . " He tells her that she has no real reason for her melancholy , " if all the ... thing in you and me is that we are too hard to please ; and << • whether we have not made ourselves so is the BIOGRAPHICAL ...
Page lviii
... thing is time , and how foolish is man , who would be as angry if time stopped as if it passed . . . . But I am thinking myself fast into the spleen , which is the only thing I would not compliment you by imitating . " But such language ...
... thing is time , and how foolish is man , who would be as angry if time stopped as if it passed . . . . But I am thinking myself fast into the spleen , which is the only thing I would not compliment you by imitating . " But such language ...
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