The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 5J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
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... common objection , of condemning what they did not understand . Nor am I at all offended , or do I think it an injury to the art , when I see the common dealers in it , the students in astrology , the philo- In the use of these ...
... common objection , of condemning what they did not understand . Nor am I at all offended , or do I think it an injury to the art , when I see the common dealers in it , the students in astrology , the philo- In the use of these ...
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... common grammar and syntax ; that they are not able to spell any word out of the usual road , nor , even in their prefaces , to write common sense , or intelligible English . Then , for their observations and predictions , they are such ...
... common grammar and syntax ; that they are not able to spell any word out of the usual road , nor , even in their prefaces , to write common sense , or intelligible English . Then , for their observations and predictions , they are such ...
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... common maker of almanacks . I do not * Sir Cloudesly Shovel's fleet was wrecked Oct. 22 , 1710 . + The battle of Almanza was fought April 25 , 1727 . lurk lurk in the dark ; I am not wholly unknown 14 PREDICTIONS FOR.
... common maker of almanacks . I do not * Sir Cloudesly Shovel's fleet was wrecked Oct. 22 , 1710 . + The battle of Almanza was fought April 25 , 1727 . lurk lurk in the dark ; I am not wholly unknown 14 PREDICTIONS FOR.
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... common conjectures , will be no very.busy month in Europe , but very signal for the death of the dauphin , which will happen on the 7th , after a short fit of sickness and grievous tor- ments with the strangury . He dies less lamented ...
... common conjectures , will be no very.busy month in Europe , but very signal for the death of the dauphin , which will happen on the 7th , after a short fit of sickness and grievous tor- ments with the strangury . He dies less lamented ...
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... common astrologers ; who , with an old paltry cant , and a few pothooks for planets to amuse the vulgar , have , in my opi- nion , too long been suffered to abuse the world : but an honest physician ought not to be des- pised , because ...
... common astrologers ; who , with an old paltry cant , and a few pothooks for planets to amuse the vulgar , have , in my opi- nion , too long been suffered to abuse the world : but an honest physician ought not to be des- pised , because ...
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