The Works of Dr. Jonathan SwiftW. Bowyer, 1768 |
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Page xi
... allowed to have any merit : they are indeed like annuals , that grow about a young tree , and feem to vie with it for a fummer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of any more . When Dr. Eachard writ his ...
... allowed to have any merit : they are indeed like annuals , that grow about a young tree , and feem to vie with it for a fummer , but fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of any more . When Dr. Eachard writ his ...
Page 32
... As for the liberty I have thought fit to take of praising myself , upon fome occa- fions or none ; I am fure it will need no excuse , if a multitude of great examples be be allowed fufficient authority : for it is here to 32 THE PREFACE .
... As for the liberty I have thought fit to take of praising myself , upon fome occa- fions or none ; I am fure it will need no excuse , if a multitude of great examples be be allowed fufficient authority : for it is here to 32 THE PREFACE .
Page 33
Jonathan Swift John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift. be allowed fufficient authority : for it is here to be noted , that praife was origi- nally a pension paid by the world ; but the moderns , finding the trouble and charge too great in ...
Jonathan Swift John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift. be allowed fufficient authority : for it is here to be noted , that praife was origi- nally a pension paid by the world ; but the moderns , finding the trouble and charge too great in ...
Page 42
... to the bar , though it be compounded of the fame matter , and defigned for the fame ufe , it cannot however be well allowed the honour of a fourth , fourth , by reafon of its level or inferior fituation 44 INTRODUCTION .
... to the bar , though it be compounded of the fame matter , and defigned for the fame ufe , it cannot however be well allowed the honour of a fourth , fourth , by reafon of its level or inferior fituation 44 INTRODUCTION .
Page 79
... allowed to have equal autho- rity with the scripture or rather greater . " When the papifts cannot find any thing which they want in Scripture , they go to oral tradition : Thus Peter is intro- f duced diffatisfied with the te- dious ...
... allowed to have equal autho- rity with the scripture or rather greater . " When the papifts cannot find any thing which they want in Scripture , they go to oral tradition : Thus Peter is intro- f duced diffatisfied with the te- dious ...
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