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Page ciii
If we 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 ...
If we 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 ...
Page cxvii
F we confider Swift's profe works , we fhall find a cer tain masterly conciseness in their style that hath never been equalled by any other writer . The truth of this as- fertion will more evidently appear , by comparing him with fome ...
F we confider Swift's profe works , we fhall find a cer tain masterly conciseness in their style that hath never been equalled by any other writer . The truth of this as- fertion will more evidently appear , by comparing him with fome ...
Page cxxiii
Men would be more cautious of lofing their time in fuch an undertaking , if they did but confider , that to answer a book effectually , requires more pains and skill , more wit , learning and judgment , than were em- ployed in the ...
Men would be more cautious of lofing their time in fuch an undertaking , if they did but confider , that to answer a book effectually , requires more pains and skill , more wit , learning and judgment , than were em- ployed in the ...
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... 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 .
... 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 .
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Now , tho ' it fometimes tenderly affects me to confider , that all the towardly paffages I fhall deliver in the following treatise , will grow quite out of date and relish with the first fhifting of the prefent fcene ; yet I must needs ...
Now , tho ' it fometimes tenderly affects me to confider , that all the towardly paffages I fhall deliver in the following treatise , will grow quite out of date and relish with the first fhifting of the prefent fcene ; yet I must needs ...
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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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