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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... employments , to several towns in Gaul , Spain , and Germany , and other distant parts , as far as Asia ; which brought a great number of foreign pretenders into Rome : the slavish disposition of the senate and people , by which the wit ...
... employments , to several towns in Gaul , Spain , and Germany , and other distant parts , as far as Asia ; which brought a great number of foreign pretenders into Rome : the slavish disposition of the senate and people , by which the wit ...
Page 75
... employments , might please to be of the number : and I am afraid such a so- ciety would want your instruction and example , as much as your protection ; for I have , not without a little envy , observed of late the style of some great ...
... employments , might please to be of the number : and I am afraid such a so- ciety would want your instruction and example , as much as your protection ; for I have , not without a little envy , observed of late the style of some great ...
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... employments , even the greatest , naturally fall , when competitors will not agree ; and in such promotions nobody re- joices or grieves . The truth of this I could prove by several instances within my own memory ; for I say nothing of ...
... employments , even the greatest , naturally fall , when competitors will not agree ; and in such promotions nobody re- joices or grieves . The truth of this I could prove by several instances within my own memory ; for I say nothing of ...
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... employments during the whole time of the usur- pation ; and their names , actions , and preferments , are frequent in the accounts of those times . For I 53 . U 4 make 1 make no doubt , that all the prudent presbyterians com- PLEA OF ...
... employments during the whole time of the usur- pation ; and their names , actions , and preferments , are frequent in the accounts of those times . For I 53 . U 4 make 1 make no doubt , that all the prudent presbyterians com- PLEA OF ...
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... employments , which many of them held to the restoration ; and perhaps too . many of them after . In the same manner , we find our wisest tories in both kingdoms , upon the change of hands and measures at the queen's death , have ...
... employments , which many of them held to the restoration ; and perhaps too . many of them after . In the same manner , we find our wisest tories in both kingdoms , upon the change of hands and measures at the queen's death , have ...
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