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There is a problem in an antient author , why dedications , and other bundles of flattery , run all upon ftale mufty topics , without the smallest tincture of any thing new ; not only to the torment and naufeating of the chriftian ...
There is a problem in an antient author , why dedications , and other bundles of flattery , run all upon ftale mufty topics , without the smallest tincture of any thing new ; not only to the torment and naufeating of the chriftian ...
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The degree of perfection in fhape and fize , I take to confift in being extremely narrow , with little ornament , and beft of all without a cover : ( for , by antient rule ...
The degree of perfection in fhape and fize , I take to confift in being extremely narrow , with little ornament , and beft of all without a cover : ( for , by antient rule ...
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... being the great original and fountain of thofe arguments , bandied about both in France and England , for a juft defence of the moderns learning and wit , against the prefumption , the pride , and the ignorance of the antients .
... being the great original and fountain of thofe arguments , bandied about both in France and England , for a juft defence of the moderns learning and wit , against the prefumption , the pride , and the ignorance of the antients .
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I have , with much pains and reading , collected out of antient authors this fhort fummary of a body of philoso- phy and divinity ; which feems to have been compofed by a vein and race of thinking , very different from any other systems ...
I have , with much pains and reading , collected out of antient authors this fhort fummary of a body of philoso- phy and divinity ; which feems to have been compofed by a vein and race of thinking , very different from any other systems ...
Page 37
... nor any where to be found in antient manuscripts . " " Tis true ( faid he ) the word " Calenda VOL . I. F 26 · << " Calenda hath in † 2. V. A TALE OF A TUB . 37.
... nor any where to be found in antient manuscripts . " " Tis true ( faid he ) the word " Calenda VOL . I. F 26 · << " Calenda hath in † 2. V. A TALE OF A TUB . 37.
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| Title | The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift .. Volume 1 of The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Publisher | G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 4 May 2017 |
| Length | 2984 pages |
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