The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised, in Twelve Volumes. Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volumen11C. Bathurst, T. Osborne, W. Bowyer, J. Hinton, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Davis and C. Reymers, and J. Dodsley., 1765 |
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... honour to be acquainted with many of that fort ; and . therefore , as you may easily believe , am com- pelled to lead a very retired life . County of Down , Dec. 2 , 1728 . I am , SIR , Your moft obedient Humble Servant , A. NORTH . THE ...
... honour to be acquainted with many of that fort ; and . therefore , as you may easily believe , am com- pelled to lead a very retired life . County of Down , Dec. 2 , 1728 . I am , SIR , Your moft obedient Humble Servant , A. NORTH . THE ...
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... honour of your parish , " than that all the ladies married in your " church were pure virgins ? That is true " ( faid he ) and the doctor knows it to his 66 forrow ; for there hath not been a couple " married in our church fince his ...
... honour of your parish , " than that all the ladies married in your " church were pure virgins ? That is true " ( faid he ) and the doctor knows it to his 66 forrow ; for there hath not been a couple " married in our church fince his ...
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... honours will please to obferve , with what lenity we propofe to treat these enor- mous offenders , who have already brought fuch a scandal on our bonurable calling , that feveral well meaning - people have mistaken them to be of our ...
... honours will please to obferve , with what lenity we propofe to treat these enor- mous offenders , who have already brought fuch a scandal on our bonurable calling , that feveral well meaning - people have mistaken them to be of our ...
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... honour to be a member of it many years before it was new modelled by the legislature ; not from any perfonal regard , but merely as one of the two deans , who are of courfe put into most commiffions that relate to the city ; and I have ...
... honour to be a member of it many years before it was new modelled by the legislature ; not from any perfonal regard , but merely as one of the two deans , who are of courfe put into most commiffions that relate to the city ; and I have ...
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... honour , more than once , to attend large cargoes of them from Chefter to Dublin : and I was then fo ignorant as to give my opinion , that our city fhould receive them into Bridewell ; and , af- ter a month's refidence , having been ...
... honour , more than once , to attend large cargoes of them from Chefter to Dublin : and I was then fo ignorant as to give my opinion , that our city fhould receive them into Bridewell ; and , af- ter a month's refidence , having been ...
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Página 16 - I demand whether I have not as good a Title to Laugh, as Men have to be Ridiculous, and to expose Vice, as another hath to be Vicious.
Página 45 - ... which he told me would save half a mile's riding. This last piece of civility had like to have cost me dear, being once or twice in danger of my neck, by leaping over his ditches, and at last forced to alight in the dirt, when my horse, having slipped his bridle, ran away, and took us up more than an hour to recover him again. It is evident, that none of the absurdities I met with in this visit proceeded from an ill intention, but from a wrong judgment of complaisance, and a misapplication in...
Página 45 - I desired at my usual hour to go to my repose, and was conducted to my chamber by the gentleman, his lady, and the whole train of children. They importuned me to drink...
Página 43 - I should drink it off; for she was sure it would do me good after coming out of the cold air; and I was forced to obey, which absolutely took away my stomach.
Página 51 - If a man of wit, who died forty years ago, were to rise from the grave on purpose, how would he be able to read this letter? and after he had got through that difficulty, how would he be able to understand it...
Página 53 - These are the false Refinements in our Style which you ought to correct: First, by Argument and fair Means; but if those fail, I think you are to make Use of your Authority as Censor, and by an annual Index Expurgatorius...
Página 49 - But instead of giving you a list of the late refinements crept into our language, I here...
Página 43 - ... is employed in laying chains and fetters upon us, in debarring us of our wishes, and in crossing our most reasonable desires and inclinations.
Página 52 - I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.
Página 52 - Battalions: as numerous as they are, if they attack us too frequently in our coffee-houses, we shall certainly put them to flight, and cut off the rear.