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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... hundred . Besides , these orators inflame the people , whose anger is really but a short fit of mad- ness , Ira furor brevis est.- HOR . B 4 After After which , laws are like cobwebs , which may FACULTIES OF THE MIND . 7.
... hundred . Besides , these orators inflame the people , whose anger is really but a short fit of mad- ness , Ira furor brevis est.- HOR . B 4 After After which , laws are like cobwebs , which may FACULTIES OF THE MIND . 7.
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... hundred years , they would be all dead . Anacreon was choked with a grapestone ; and violent joy kills as well as violent grief . There is nothing in this world constant , but inconstancy ; yet Plato thought , that if virtue would ...
... hundred years , they would be all dead . Anacreon was choked with a grapestone ; and violent joy kills as well as violent grief . There is nothing in this world constant , but inconstancy ; yet Plato thought , that if virtue would ...
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... hundred instances in all their almanacks , to vince any reasonable man , that they do not so much as understand common grammar and syntax ; that they are not able to spell any word out of the usual road , nor , even in their prefaces ...
... hundred instances in all their almanacks , to vince any reasonable man , that they do not so much as understand common grammar and syntax ; that they are not able to spell any word out of the usual road , nor , even in their prefaces ...
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... hundreds , half of them with one foot in the grave . Then , " such a planet in such a house shows great ma ... hundred other abuses of this art too tedious to repeat , I resolved to proceed in a new way , which I doubt not will ...
... hundreds , half of them with one foot in the grave . Then , " such a planet in such a house shows great ma ... hundred other abuses of this art too tedious to repeat , I resolved to proceed in a new way , which I doubt not will ...
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... in putting this great town into a wonderment about nothing : nor do I doubt but he , and his friends in the secret , laugh often and plentifully in a corner , to reflect how . many many hundred thousand fools they have already made . And.
... in putting this great town into a wonderment about nothing : nor do I doubt but he , and his friends in the secret , laugh often and plentifully in a corner , to reflect how . many many hundred thousand fools they have already made . And.
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