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He taught her , fays his lordship , that vice A foon as it defied fhame , was immediately changed into virtue ; but the most obvious and natural meaning is juft contrary . That we defire to conceal no act which upon reflection we do not ...
He taught her , fays his lordship , that vice A foon as it defied fhame , was immediately changed into virtue ; but the most obvious and natural meaning is juft contrary . That we defire to conceal no act which upon reflection we do not ...
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... immediately after his marriage , In this diftrefs fhe was taken with her daugher into the family of Godwin , her husband's eldest brother , and on the 30th of November , 1667 , about seven months after her husband's death , fhe was ...
... immediately after his marriage , In this diftrefs fhe was taken with her daugher into the family of Godwin , her husband's eldest brother , and on the 30th of November , 1667 , about seven months after her husband's death , fhe was ...
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But upon Swift , this punishment was not ineffectual , he dreaded the repetition of such disgrace as the last evil that could befal him , and therefore immediately fet about to prevent it as the principal business of his life .
But upon Swift , this punishment was not ineffectual , he dreaded the repetition of such disgrace as the last evil that could befal him , and therefore immediately fet about to prevent it as the principal business of his life .
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her fon to communicate his fituation to fir William , and follicit his direction what to do ; this advice , which perhaps only confirmed a refolution that Swift had secretly taken before he left Ireland , he immediately refolved to ...
her fon to communicate his fituation to fir William , and follicit his direction what to do ; this advice , which perhaps only confirmed a refolution that Swift had secretly taken before he left Ireland , he immediately refolved to ...
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The fact therefore which , lord Orrery fays , was immediately confrued to favour an opinion that Swift was fir William's natural fon appears never to have happened . See Swift's fetch of his own life . From : From Oxford he returned ...
The fact therefore which , lord Orrery fays , was immediately confrued to favour an opinion that Swift was fir William's natural fon appears never to have happened . See Swift's fetch of his own life . From : From Oxford he returned ...
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