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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... consequences thereof . All which I showed to some friends many months before they happened ; that is , I gave them papers sealed up , to open at such a time , after which they were at liberty to read them ; and there they found my ...
... consequences thereof . All which I showed to some friends many months before they happened ; that is , I gave them papers sealed up , to open at such a time , after which they were at liberty to read them ; and there they found my ...
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... consequence , I shall be very free and the truth of my conjectures will as much appear from these as the other . As for the most signal events abroad in France , Flanders , Italy , and Spain , I shall make no scruple to predict them in ...
... consequence , I shall be very free and the truth of my conjectures will as much appear from these as the other . As for the most signal events abroad in France , Flanders , Italy , and Spain , I shall make no scruple to predict them in ...
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... consequence of this defect , upon our language , may appear from the plays , and other compositions written for entertainment within fifty years past ; filled with a succession of affected phrases , and new conceited words , either ...
... consequence of this defect , upon our language , may appear from the plays , and other compositions written for entertainment within fifty years past ; filled with a succession of affected phrases , and new conceited words , either ...
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... consequence to young divines . This has wholly taken many of them off from their severer studies in the university ; which they have exchanged for plays , poems , and pamphlets , in order to qualify them for teatables and coffeehouses ...
... consequence to young divines . This has wholly taken many of them off from their severer studies in the university ; which they have exchanged for plays , poems , and pamphlets , in order to qualify them for teatables and coffeehouses ...
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... consequence of the former . For all the writers against christianity , since the re- volution , have been of the lowest rank among men in regard to literature , wit , and good sense , and upon that account wholly unqualified to ...
... consequence of the former . For all the writers against christianity , since the re- volution , have been of the lowest rank among men in regard to literature , wit , and good sense , and upon that account wholly unqualified to ...
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