The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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... themselves muft 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 author of this ...
... themselves muft 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 author of this ...
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... 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 left ; and , if his papers had not been a long time ...
... 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 left ; and , if his papers had not been a long time ...
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... themselves . Now your Lordship is to understand , that this proceeding was not of my own invention ; for I have fomewhere heard it is a maxim , that those to whom every body allows the fecond place , have an undoubted title to the first ...
... themselves . Now your Lordship is to understand , that this proceeding was not of my own invention ; for I have fomewhere heard it is a maxim , that those to whom every body allows the fecond place , have an undoubted title to the first ...
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... 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 . However , I thought it fairer deal- ing to offer the whole work in its ...
... 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 . However , I thought it fairer deal- ing to offer the whole work in its ...
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... themselves . Indeed , nature berfelf has taken order , that fame and honour should be purchased at a better pennyworth by fatire , than by any other productions of the brain ; the world being fooneft provoked to praise by lashes , as ...
... themselves . Indeed , nature berfelf has taken order , that fame and honour should be purchased at a better pennyworth by fatire , than by any other productions of the brain ; the world being fooneft provoked to praise by lashes , as ...
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