The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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... perhaps was in this cafe complicated with vanity , which would have been highly gratified by an alliance with the first wit of the age ; and thus what neither could have effected alone , was done by the joint effort of both , and the ...
... perhaps was in this cafe complicated with vanity , which would have been highly gratified by an alliance with the first wit of the age ; and thus what neither could have effected alone , was done by the joint effort of both , and the ...
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... perhaps influenced by the au- thority of a mother , leffened her fortune at an age when " few have been discreet ; it cannot be denied , that the re- trieved it by prudence and economy , at an age when many have continued diffolute ...
... perhaps influenced by the au- thority of a mother , leffened her fortune at an age when " few have been discreet ; it cannot be denied , that the re- trieved it by prudence and economy , at an age when many have continued diffolute ...
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... perhaps the poffeffed the only copy , that , in her fenfe of the verfes , none of them implied a fact which would dishonour her memory . And this appears alfo to have been the opinion of her executors , who , tho ' they fup- preffed the ...
... perhaps the poffeffed the only copy , that , in her fenfe of the verfes , none of them implied a fact which would dishonour her memory . And this appears alfo to have been the opinion of her executors , who , tho ' they fup- preffed the ...
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... perhaps , it is not an extravagant conjecture , that having , according to his own account , wholly neglected his ftudies for the first three years of his refidence at the deanery , and indulged the refent- ment which his ...
... perhaps , it is not an extravagant conjecture , that having , according to his own account , wholly neglected his ftudies for the first three years of his refidence at the deanery , and indulged the refent- ment which his ...
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... perhaps have been fo long and fo zealously remembered , if a pro- fecution had not been commenced against the printer . As foon as this meafure was taken , the importance of the work was eftimated by the diligence of the govern- ment to ...
... perhaps have been fo long and fo zealously remembered , if a pro- fecution had not been commenced against the printer . As foon as this meafure was taken , the importance of the work was eftimated by the diligence of the govern- ment to ...
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