The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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... fhall come to riper years , and have gone thro ' the learning of an- tiquity , you will be too curious to neglect inquiring into the authors of the very age before you . And to think that this infolent , in the account he is preparing ...
... fhall come to riper years , and have gone thro ' the learning of an- tiquity , you will be too curious to neglect inquiring into the authors of the very age before you . And to think that this infolent , in the account he is preparing ...
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... fhall bequeath this piece of justice to a larger work ; wherein I intend to write a cha- racter of the present set of wits in our nation . Their perfons I fhall defcribe particulary , and at length ; their genius and understandings in ...
... fhall bequeath this piece of justice to a larger work ; wherein I intend to write a cha- racter of the present set of wits in our nation . Their perfons I fhall defcribe particulary , and at length ; their genius and understandings in ...
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... fhall refer the curious reader for a more particular account , mentioning at prefent only a few of the principal schools : there is , firft , a large Pæderaftic fchool , with French and Italian masters : there is also the Spelling ...
... fhall refer the curious reader for a more particular account , mentioning at prefent only a few of the principal schools : there is , firft , a large Pæderaftic fchool , with French and Italian masters : there is also the Spelling ...
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... fhall deliver in the following treatise , will grow quite out of date and relish with the firft fhifting of the present scene ; yet I must needs subscribe to the juftice of this proceeding ; because I cannot ima- gine why we should be ...
... fhall deliver in the following treatise , will grow quite out of date and relish with the firft fhifting of the present scene ; yet I must needs subscribe to the juftice of this proceeding ; because I cannot ima- gine why we should be ...
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... fhall fet them down as near as my memory has been able to retain them . One begins thus : " For a man to set up for a writer , when the press " fwarms with , & c . ” Another : Another : " The tax upon paper does not leffen 12 THE PREFACE .
... fhall fet them down as near as my memory has been able to retain them . One begins thus : " For a man to set up for a writer , when the press " fwarms with , & c . ” Another : Another : " The tax upon paper does not leffen 12 THE PREFACE .
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