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Perfonal fatire against evil magiftrates , corrupt minifters , and thofe giants of power , who gorge themselves with the intrails of their country , is different from that per- fonal fatire , which too often proceeds merely from felf- ...
Perfonal fatire against evil magiftrates , corrupt minifters , and thofe giants of power , who gorge themselves with the intrails of their country , is different from that per- fonal fatire , which too often proceeds merely from felf- ...
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... which they themselves must difapprove , than to endeavour pulling up thofe very foundations , wherein all Chriftians have agreed . * He thinks it no fair proceeding , that any perfon fhould offer determinately to fix a name upon the ...
... which they themselves must difapprove , than to endeavour pulling up thofe very foundations , wherein all Chriftians have agreed . * He thinks it no fair proceeding , that any perfon fhould offer determinately to fix a name upon the ...
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And the author affures those gentlemen who have given themselves that trouble with him , that his difcourfe is the product of the study , the obfervation , and the invention of feveral years ; that he often blotted out much more than he ...
And the author affures those gentlemen who have given themselves that trouble with him , that his difcourfe is the product of the study , the obfervation , and the invention of feveral years ; that he often blotted out much more than he ...
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... I went to feveral other wits of my acquaintance , with no small hazard and wearinefs to my perfon , from a prodigious number of dark , winding ftairs ; but found them all in the fame ftory , both of your Lordship and themselves .
... I went to feveral other wits of my acquaintance , with no small hazard and wearinefs to my perfon , from a prodigious number of dark , winding ftairs ; but found them all in the fame ftory , both of your Lordship and themselves .
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... wit had new polished and refined ; or , as our present writers exprefs themselves , fitted to the humour of the age ; as they have already done , with great felicity , to Don Quixote , Boccalini , la Bruyere , and other authors .
... wit had new polished and refined ; or , as our present writers exprefs themselves , fitted to the humour of the age ; as they have already done , with great felicity , to Don Quixote , Boccalini , la Bruyere , and other authors .
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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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