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It has been obferved that corporal pain , whether by forcing the mind from that object which has engroffed it , or by whatever means , has restored lunaticks to the use of reafon ; and this effect , in a great degree , it produced upon ...
It has been obferved that corporal pain , whether by forcing the mind from that object which has engroffed it , or by whatever means , has restored lunaticks to the use of reafon ; and this effect , in a great degree , it produced upon ...
Page vii
there were no other inftance of what I have too frequently obferved , that many of that reverend body are not always very nice in diftinguishing between their enemies and their friends . Had the author's intentions met with a more ...
there were no other inftance of what I have too frequently obferved , that many of that reverend body are not always very nice in diftinguishing between their enemies and their friends . Had the author's intentions met with a more ...
Page ix
There is one thing which the judicious reader cannot but have obferved , that fome of those paffages in this difcourfe , which appear most liable to objection , are what they call parodies , where the author perfonates the ftyle and ...
There is one thing which the judicious reader cannot but have obferved , that fome of those paffages in this difcourfe , which appear most liable to objection , are what they call parodies , where the author perfonates the ftyle and ...
Page xi
Another thing to be obferved is , that there generally runs an irony through the thread of the whole book , which the men of taste will observe and distingush , and which will render fome objections , that have been made , very weak and ...
Another thing to be obferved is , that there generally runs an irony through the thread of the whole book , which the men of taste will observe and distingush , and which will render fome objections , that have been made , very weak and ...
Page xv
... it was obferved , how he was pleased , and affected to have that noble writer called his adverfary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fufficiently mortified at the term .
... it was obferved , how he was pleased , and affected to have that noble writer called his adverfary ; and it was a point of fatyr well directed ; for I have been told , Sir William Temple was fufficiently mortified at the term .
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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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