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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Page liv
... these letters in " this cover , in the order I fhall give them to you : I intended to do it myself , but that I thought it might be a pretty amufement for a child ; fo I fent for you . " She told him fhe was extremely proud " to be ...
... these letters in " this cover , in the order I fhall give them to you : I intended to do it myself , but that I thought it might be a pretty amufement for a child ; fo I fent for you . " She told him fhe was extremely proud " to be ...
Page 6
... these are no enter- prifes for common hands , nor to be hoped for above once or twice in an age . Men would be more cautious of lofing their time in fuch an undertaking , if they did but confider , that to answer a book effectually ...
... these are no enter- prifes for common hands , nor to be hoped for above once or twice in an age . Men would be more cautious of lofing their time in fuch an undertaking , if they did but confider , that to answer a book effectually ...
Page 9
... these words : Į I have been affured , that the battle in St. James's library is , mutatis mutandis , taken out of a French book , intitled , Combat des livres , if 1 mifremember not . In which paf- fage there are two clauses obfervable ...
... these words : Į I have been affured , that the battle in St. James's library is , mutatis mutandis , taken out of a French book , intitled , Combat des livres , if 1 mifremember not . In which paf- fage there are two clauses obfervable ...
Page 10
... these gentlemen deal with the world in those criticisms where we have not leisure to defeat them , their readers had need be cautious , how they rely upon their credit ; and whether this proceeding can be reconciled to humanity or truth ...
... these gentlemen deal with the world in those criticisms where we have not leisure to defeat them , their readers had need be cautious , how they rely upon their credit ; and whether this proceeding can be reconciled to humanity or truth ...
Page 12
... these the author cannot be accufed . For the judicious reader will find , that the feverest strokes of fatire , in his book , are levelled against the modern cuftom of employing wit upon thofe topics ; of which there is a remarkable ...
... these the author cannot be accufed . For the judicious reader will find , that the feverest strokes of fatire , in his book , are levelled against the modern cuftom of employing wit upon thofe topics ; of which there is a remarkable ...
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