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On that day no other perfon was for fometime admitted ; but this felect company was at length enlarged to fixteen , all men of the first clafs , Swift included . They dined once a - week at the houfes of each other by rotation ...
On that day no other perfon was for fometime admitted ; but this felect company was at length enlarged to fixteen , all men of the first clafs , Swift included . They dined once a - week at the houfes of each other by rotation ...
Page xxxvi
A man always appears of more confequence to himself , than he is in reality to any other perfon . Such perhaps was the cafe of Dr Swift . He found himself much indulged by the fmiles and converfation of the Earl of Oxford .
A man always appears of more confequence to himself , than he is in reality to any other perfon . Such perhaps was the cafe of Dr Swift . He found himself much indulged by the fmiles and converfation of the Earl of Oxford .
Page xlvi
... or have induced Swift to fuffer an obligation from thofe whom he did not esteem ; for he refufed the place of hiftoriographer with disdain , because it was in the difpofal of a perfon whom he regarded with disgust and contempt + .
... or have induced Swift to fuffer an obligation from thofe whom he did not esteem ; for he refufed the place of hiftoriographer with disdain , because it was in the difpofal of a perfon whom he regarded with disgust and contempt + .
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In a perfon of a ac this difpofition , it was natural for fuch a character as that of Swift to excite admiration , a paffion which by frequent converfe was foftened into complacency , and complacency was at length improved into love .
In a perfon of a ac this difpofition , it was natural for fuch a character as that of Swift to excite admiration , a paffion which by frequent converfe was foftened into complacency , and complacency was at length improved into love .
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... and her friends , were the perfons with whom Swift fpent his leifure - hours , from the year 1714 to the year 1720 , [ 7. R. p . ... and generofity ; remarkably cleanly and elegant in her perfon , in her house , and at her ta- ble .
... and her friends , were the perfons with whom Swift fpent his leifure - hours , from the year 1714 to the year 1720 , [ 7. R. p . ... and generofity ; remarkably cleanly and elegant in her perfon , in her house , and at her ta- ble .
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| Title | The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift .. Volume 1 of The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Publisher | G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 4 May 2017 |
| Length | 2984 pages |
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