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Gulliver's Travels were first printed in . the year 1726 , with fome alterations which had been made by the person through whofe hands they were conveyed to the press , but the original paffages were reftored to the fubfequent editions ...
Gulliver's Travels were first printed in . the year 1726 , with fome alterations which had been made by the person through whofe hands they were conveyed to the press , but the original paffages were reftored to the fubfequent editions ...
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44 . which is yet a ftronger proof that he did not revife the Irish edition , where the fubSequent numbers are imputed to him , and have received correction from the hand that corrected the reft . The editor of the Irish edition has ...
44 . which is yet a ftronger proof that he did not revife the Irish edition , where the fubSequent numbers are imputed to him , and have received correction from the hand that corrected the reft . The editor of the Irish edition has ...
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... the fame fentiment is alfo more strongly expreffed in the following extract from a letter now in the hands of the publisher , which was written by the Dean to the late Mr. Benjamin Motte his bookfeller in London .
... the fame fentiment is alfo more strongly expreffed in the following extract from a letter now in the hands of the publisher , which was written by the Dean to the late Mr. Benjamin Motte his bookfeller in London .
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His father William Swift , rector of St. Andrews in Conterbury , married the heiress of Phi pot , who contrived to keep her estate which was very confiderable in her own hands ; fhe is faid to have been extremely capricious and ill ...
His father William Swift , rector of St. Andrews in Conterbury , married the heiress of Phi pot , who contrived to keep her estate which was very confiderable in her own hands ; fhe is faid to have been extremely capricious and ill ...
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Mr. Pope alfo in one of his letters to him , mentions England as his native country ; but this account of his birth is taken from that which he left behind him in his own hand writing , and while he lived he was I fo far from seriously ...
Mr. Pope alfo in one of his letters to him , mentions England as his native country ; but this account of his birth is taken from that which he left behind him in his own hand writing , and while he lived he was I fo far from seriously ...
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