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... eloquence might have been employed with great advantage ; but this was not in their power , and they might be willing to fecure to him fuch advantage as they could , knowing their own inftability , and foreseeing their fall .
... eloquence might have been employed with great advantage ; but this was not in their power , and they might be willing to fecure to him fuch advantage as they could , knowing their own inftability , and foreseeing their fall .
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You taught how I might youth prolong By knowing what was right and wrong ; How from my heart to bring fupplies Of luftre to my fading eyes ; How foon a beauteous mind repairs The lofs of chang'd or falling hairs ; How wit and virtue ...
You taught how I might youth prolong By knowing what was right and wrong ; How from my heart to bring fupplies Of luftre to my fading eyes ; How foon a beauteous mind repairs The lofs of chang'd or falling hairs ; How wit and virtue ...
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... but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of any more . When Dr. Eachard writ his book about the contempt of the clergy , clergy , numbers of those answerers immediately started up , AN APOLOGY . xi.
... but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of any more . When Dr. Eachard writ his book about the contempt of the clergy , clergy , numbers of those answerers immediately started up , AN APOLOGY . xi.
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THE HE wits of the present age being fo very numerous and penetrating , it feems the grandees of church and ftate begin to fall under horrible apprehenfions , left thefe gentlemen , during the intervals of a long peace , fhould find ...
THE HE wits of the present age being fo very numerous and penetrating , it feems the grandees of church and ftate begin to fall under horrible apprehenfions , left thefe gentlemen , during the intervals of a long peace , fhould find ...
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... or a Demof thenes : but , on the other fide , the leaft reflecting word let fall against the people in general , was immediately caught up , and revenged upon the authors , however confiderable for their quality or their merits .
... or a Demof thenes : but , on the other fide , the leaft reflecting word let fall against the people in general , was immediately caught up , and revenged upon the authors , however confiderable for their quality or their merits .
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| Title | The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift Volume 1 of The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: Accurately Revised ... Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Jonathan Swift The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Editors | John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift |
| Publisher | W. Bowyer, 1768 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Feb 2009 |
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