The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Historical and political tracts-EnglishG. Bell, 1901 |
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Page xi
... able assistance to Mr. W. Spencer Jackson who has carefully collated texts , to Mr. G. Ravenscroft Dennis , and to the late Colonel F. Grant . His indebtedness must also be recorded to the ' many published works on Swift and his times ...
... able assistance to Mr. W. Spencer Jackson who has carefully collated texts , to Mr. G. Ravenscroft Dennis , and to the late Colonel F. Grant . His indebtedness must also be recorded to the ' many published works on Swift and his times ...
Page xii
... able apologist . Acknowledgment must again be made to Sir Frederick Falkiner for his help in the matter of the Swift portraits . Finally , the editor begs to thank the publishers heartily for their indulgence for the unavoidable delay ...
... able apologist . Acknowledgment must again be made to Sir Frederick Falkiner for his help in the matter of the Swift portraits . Finally , the editor begs to thank the publishers heartily for their indulgence for the unavoidable delay ...
Page 11
... able to relate them in due order of time , my correspondent omitting that cir- cumstance , and transmitting them to me , as they came into his memory : So that the gentlemen of that kingdom now in town , I hope will pardon me any slips ...
... able to relate them in due order of time , my correspondent omitting that cir- cumstance , and transmitting them to me , as they came into his memory : So that the gentlemen of that kingdom now in town , I hope will pardon me any slips ...
Page 42
... able to find one innuendo through all those papers that can any way favour this calumny : The malice of which is not intended against me , but the present ministry , to make the world believe , that what I have pub- lished , is the ...
... able to find one innuendo through all those papers that can any way favour this calumny : The malice of which is not intended against me , but the present ministry , to make the world believe , that what I have pub- lished , is the ...
Page 48
... able to make any of them tools , except by making them bishops ; even those few they were able to seduce , would not be their tools at a lower rate . : But because this author , and others of his standard , affect to make use of that ...
... able to make any of them tools , except by making them bishops ; even those few they were able to seduce , would not be their tools at a lower rate . : But because this author , and others of his standard , affect to make use of that ...
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Page 182 - Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?