The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Page ciii
... confider Swift as a divine and a Chriftian , we fhall find him , altho ' not fo grave , yet at least as per- fect , as the most famous of his contemporaries . His first setting out in the world may be thought fomewhat fingular , in this ...
... confider Swift as a divine and a Chriftian , we fhall find him , altho ' not fo grave , yet at least as per- fect , as the most famous of his contemporaries . His first setting out in the world may be thought fomewhat fingular , in this ...
Page cxvii
... confider Swift's profe works , we shall find a cer- tain masterly concifenefs in their style that hath never been equalled by any other writer . The truth of this af fertion will more evidently appear , by comparing him . with fome of ...
... confider Swift's profe works , we shall find a cer- tain masterly concifenefs in their style that hath never been equalled by any other writer . The truth of this af fertion will more evidently appear , by comparing him . with fome of ...
Page cxxiii
... confider , that to answer a book effectually , requires more pains and skill , more wit , learning and judgment , than were em- ployed in the writing it . And the author affures those gentlemen who have given themselves that trouble ...
... confider , that to answer a book effectually , requires more pains and skill , more wit , learning and judgment , than were em- ployed in the writing it . And the author affures those gentlemen who have given themselves that trouble ...
Page 3
... confider his baneful abominable breath , enemy to life and matter , infectious and corrupting ; and then reflect whether it be poffible for any mortal ink and paper of this genera- tion to make a fuitable refiftance . Oh ! that your ...
... confider his baneful abominable breath , enemy to life and matter , infectious and corrupting ; and then reflect whether it be poffible for any mortal ink and paper of this genera- tion to make a fuitable refiftance . Oh ! that your ...
Page 11
... confider , that all the towardly paffages I fhall deliver in the following treatise , will grow quite out of date and relish with the firft fhifting of the present scene ; yet I must needs subscribe to the juftice of this proceeding ...
... confider , that all the towardly paffages I fhall deliver in the following treatise , will grow quite out of date and relish with the firft fhifting of the present scene ; yet I must needs subscribe to the juftice of this proceeding ...
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