The Works of Dr. Jonathan SwiftW. Bowyer, 1768 |
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Page 23
... mind perpetually revolves the recent offences of a friend , and heightens them by every poffible aggravation , but that , when the offended and offender meet , the dying sparks of esteem or kindness often brighten in- to a fame , the ...
... mind perpetually revolves the recent offences of a friend , and heightens them by every poffible aggravation , but that , when the offended and offender meet , the dying sparks of esteem or kindness often brighten in- to a fame , the ...
Page 24
... mind was ftill bufy for his friends , and he wrote a difcourfe cal- led Free Thoughts on the prefent State of Affairs , which he thought might be ufeful at that juncture , and fent it up to London , but , fome difference of opi- nion ...
... mind was ftill bufy for his friends , and he wrote a difcourfe cal- led Free Thoughts on the prefent State of Affairs , which he thought might be ufeful at that juncture , and fent it up to London , but , fome difference of opi- nion ...
Page 27
... mind , for he exacted nothing which , in his turn , he did not pay , nor asked more for himself than for others , whofe pretenfions or circumftances were the fame . When he was defired by lord Oxford to intro- duce doctor Parnel to his ...
... mind , for he exacted nothing which , in his turn , he did not pay , nor asked more for himself than for others , whofe pretenfions or circumftances were the fame . When he was defired by lord Oxford to intro- duce doctor Parnel to his ...
Page 35
... mind had been now fo filled with politics that he found it impracticable to excel as a preacher , his first and most laudable ambition ; and frequently : declared that , though he fometimes attempted to ex- ért himself in the pulpit ...
... mind had been now fo filled with politics that he found it impracticable to excel as a preacher , his first and most laudable ambition ; and frequently : declared that , though he fometimes attempted to ex- ért himself in the pulpit ...
Page 39
... minds , fhe does not appear to have known that it was criminal , or to have defired that it might be unlawfully gratified . She preffed a person whom she believed fingle to marry her , but it does not therefore follow , that he was his ...
... minds , fhe does not appear to have known that it was criminal , or to have defired that it might be unlawfully gratified . She preffed a person whom she believed fingle to marry her , but it does not therefore follow , that he was his ...
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