The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: The journal to Stella. A.D. 1710-1713G. Bell, 1902 |
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Page xii
... cause of my writing was , not to let such a queen and ministry lie under such a load of infamy , or posterity be so ill - informed , & c . Lord Oxford is in the wrong to be in pain about his father's character , or his proceedings in ...
... cause of my writing was , not to let such a queen and ministry lie under such a load of infamy , or posterity be so ill - informed , & c . Lord Oxford is in the wrong to be in pain about his father's character , or his proceedings in ...
Page xiii
... causes , my sight is so far impaired , that I am not able , without much pain , to scratch out a letter . I " I do not remember ever to have read your History . own my memory is much decayed ; but still I think I could not have ...
... causes , my sight is so far impaired , that I am not able , without much pain , to scratch out a letter . I " I do not remember ever to have read your History . own my memory is much decayed ; but still I think I could not have ...
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... causes assigned for delaying the publication of this history were principally these : That the manuscript fell into the hands of men , who , whatever they might have been by the generality deemed , were by the Dean believed to be of his ...
... causes assigned for delaying the publication of this history were principally these : That the manuscript fell into the hands of men , who , whatever they might have been by the generality deemed , were by the Dean believed to be of his ...
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... cause . And falsehood and fraud , in religion and politics , are ever to be detected , to be exploded . Insinuations , that this History contained something inju rious to the present establishment , and therefore necessary to be ...
... cause . And falsehood and fraud , in religion and politics , are ever to be detected , to be exploded . Insinuations , that this History contained something inju rious to the present establishment , and therefore necessary to be ...
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... cause that insatiable love of revenge , which his detractors lay to his charge , who consequently reckon dissimulation among his chief perfections . Avarice he hath none ; and his ambition is gratified , by being the uncontested head of ...
... cause that insatiable love of revenge , which his detractors lay to his charge , who consequently reckon dissimulation among his chief perfections . Avarice he hath none ; and his ambition is gratified , by being the uncontested head of ...
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