The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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... learned and the great . When he is ferious , his gravity becomes him ; when he laughs , his readers muft laugh with him . But what fhall be faid for his love of trifies , and his want of delicacy and decorum ? errors that if he did not ...
... learned and the great . When he is ferious , his gravity becomes him ; when he laughs , his readers muft laugh with him . But what fhall be faid for his love of trifies , and his want of delicacy and decorum ? errors that if he did not ...
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... learned profeffors in either faculty would have been fo far from refenting it , as to have given him thanks for his pains ; especially if he had made an honourable refervation for the true practice of either fcience . But religion ...
... learned profeffors in either faculty would have been fo far from refenting it , as to have given him thanks for his pains ; especially if he had made an honourable refervation for the true practice of either fcience . But religion ...
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... him , by perfonating other writers , who fometimes offer fuch reafons and excufes for publishing their works , as they ought chiefly to conceal and be afhamed of . yet has the universal learned world already refolved upon appealing THE.
... him , by perfonating other writers , who fometimes offer fuch reafons and excufes for publishing their works , as they ought chiefly to conceal and be afhamed of . yet has the universal learned world already refolved upon appealing THE.
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Jonathan Swift. yet has the universal learned world already refolved upon appealing to your future dictates with the lowest and most refigned fubmiffion ; fate having decreed you fole arbiter of the productions of human wit , in this ...
Jonathan Swift. yet has the universal learned world already refolved upon appealing to your future dictates with the lowest and most refigned fubmiffion ; fate having decreed you fole arbiter of the productions of human wit , in this ...
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... learned their mother tongue to beg for pity . Some he ftifles in their cradles ; others he frights into convulfions , whereof they fuddenly die : fome he flays alive , others he tears limb from limb :. great numbers are offered to ...
... learned their mother tongue to beg for pity . Some he ftifles in their cradles ; others he frights into convulfions , whereof they fuddenly die : fome he flays alive , others he tears limb from limb :. great numbers are offered to ...
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