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... he was not by nature much inclined , and apply himself wholly to books of history and poetry , by which he could without intellectual labour fill his mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the fenfe of his condition .
... he was not by nature much inclined , and apply himself wholly to books of history and poetry , by which he could without intellectual labour fill his mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the fenfe of his condition .
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That he might not wait upon Mr. Harley to whom his name was well known wholly without recommendation , he got himself reprefented as a perfon who had been extremely ill used by te Jaft ministry , because he would not go certain lengths ...
That he might not wait upon Mr. Harley to whom his name was well known wholly without recommendation , he got himself reprefented as a perfon who had been extremely ill used by te Jaft ministry , because he would not go certain lengths ...
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As to his employment at home , he feems to have › had no heart to apply himself to ftudy of any kind , D 3 but but to have refigned himself wholly to fuch amufe ments LIFE OF Dr. SWIFT . 35.
As to his employment at home , he feems to have › had no heart to apply himself to ftudy of any kind , D 3 but but to have refigned himself wholly to fuch amufe ments LIFE OF Dr. SWIFT . 35.
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but to have refigned himself wholly to fuch amufe ments as offered , that he might not think of his fituation , the misfortune of his friends , and the difappointment of his hope ; fuch at least is the account that he gives to Mr. Gay ...
but to have refigned himself wholly to fuch amufe ments as offered , that he might not think of his fituation , the misfortune of his friends , and the difappointment of his hope ; fuch at least is the account that he gives to Mr. Gay ...
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Upon the whole , perhaps , it is not an extravagant conjecture , that having , according to his own account , wholly neglected his ftudies for the first three years of his refidence at the deanery , and indulged the refentment which his ...
Upon the whole , perhaps , it is not an extravagant conjecture , that having , according to his own account , wholly neglected his ftudies for the first three years of his refidence at the deanery , and indulged the refentment which his ...
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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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