The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Page lvii
... occafion to review his Latin and Greek , or acquaint himself with church- hiftory , left he should not fuftain his character among learned men : for except it be pretended that others were able to acquire more knowledge in lefs time and ...
... occafion to review his Latin and Greek , or acquaint himself with church- hiftory , left he should not fuftain his character among learned men : for except it be pretended that others were able to acquire more knowledge in lefs time and ...
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... occafion ; and Waters , the printer , after having been long haraffed and imprisoned , at length obtained a Noli profequi . ( n THE In the year 1710 , Swift began to reaflume , in fome degree , the character of a political writer . A ...
... occafion ; and Waters , the printer , after having been long haraffed and imprisoned , at length obtained a Noli profequi . ( n THE In the year 1710 , Swift began to reaflume , in fome degree , the character of a political writer . A ...
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... occafion of those letters was a scarci- ty of copper coin in Ireland , to fo great a degree , that for fome time paft the chief manufacturers throughout the kingdom were obliged to pay their workmen in pieces of tin , or in other tokens ...
... occafion of those letters was a scarci- ty of copper coin in Ireland , to fo great a degree , that for fome time paft the chief manufacturers throughout the kingdom were obliged to pay their workmen in pieces of tin , or in other tokens ...
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... occafion he relapfed into the agonies of mind which he had felt the year before He expected by the next poft to hear that he was dead ; and intreated that he might be told no particulars , but the event in general ; for that , his age ...
... occafion he relapfed into the agonies of mind which he had felt the year before He expected by the next poft to hear that he was dead ; and intreated that he might be told no particulars , but the event in general ; for that , his age ...
Page lxxvi
... occafion to thofe melancholy , thofe tender complaints , of that once great and admired perfon ; whofe converfation , even in his latter days , after the vigour and spright- liness of his genius had greatly fubfided , had somewhat in it ...
... occafion to thofe melancholy , thofe tender complaints , of that once great and admired perfon ; whofe converfation , even in his latter days , after the vigour and spright- liness of his genius had greatly fubfided , had somewhat in it ...
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