The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinC. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Hinton, J. Dodsley, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, and W. Bowyer, 1766 |
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... party with such a rabble of fcribblers ? & c . Now , I have two words in my own defence against this objection . First , I am far from granting the num- ber of writers a nuisance to our nation , having ftrenu- ously maintained the ...
... party with such a rabble of fcribblers ? & c . Now , I have two words in my own defence against this objection . First , I am far from granting the num- ber of writers a nuisance to our nation , having ftrenu- ously maintained the ...
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... party , be no difcourage- ment for the authors to proceed ; but let them remem- ber , it is with wits as with razors , which are never fo apt to cut thofe they are employed on , as when they have loft their edge . Befides , thofe whofe ...
... party , be no difcourage- ment for the authors to proceed ; but let them remem- ber , it is with wits as with razors , which are never fo apt to cut thofe they are employed on , as when they have loft their edge . Befides , thofe whofe ...
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... party , flept out the whole cause on the bench ; or , how fuch an orator makes long speeches in the fenate with much thought , little fenfe , and to no purpose : whoever , I fay , fhould venture to be thus particular , must expect to be ...
... party , flept out the whole cause on the bench ; or , how fuch an orator makes long speeches in the fenate with much thought , little fenfe , and to no purpose : whoever , I fay , fhould venture to be thus particular , must expect to be ...
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... offended Swift , who , otherwife , I hope , would have been more indulgent to the errors of a man op- preffed by poverty , driven on by party , and bewildered by re- ligion- peculiar property , that over their heads there is room.
... offended Swift , who , otherwife , I hope , would have been more indulgent to the errors of a man op- preffed by poverty , driven on by party , and bewildered by re- ligion- peculiar property , that over their heads there is room.
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... party's quarrel upon my nofe and fhins . Fourfcore and eleven pamphlets have I written under three reigns , and for the fervice of fix and thirty factions . But , finding the ftate has no farther occafion for me and my ink , I retire ...
... party's quarrel upon my nofe and fhins . Fourfcore and eleven pamphlets have I written under three reigns , and for the fervice of fix and thirty factions . But , finding the ftate has no farther occafion for me and my ink , I retire ...
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