The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Historical and political tracts-EnglishG. Bell, 1901 |
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... appearance , and in manners . . . . The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian . ... To the end of his long life the wives and daughters of his nearest friends were not safe from his ...
... appearance , and in manners . . . . The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian . ... To the end of his long life the wives and daughters of his nearest friends were not safe from his ...
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... appeared by the notorious cheats and neglects that have been made out against them , insomuch that the work that they have overseen , which , with their salaries , has cost near three thousand pounds , might have been done for less than ...
... appeared by the notorious cheats and neglects that have been made out against them , insomuch that the work that they have overseen , which , with their salaries , has cost near three thousand pounds , might have been done for less than ...
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... appeared publicly with his Excellency , but never in his habit , and who was a hearer and sharer of all the lewd and blasphemous discourses of his Excellency and his cabal . His Excellency presented this worthy divine to one of the ...
... appeared publicly with his Excellency , but never in his habit , and who was a hearer and sharer of all the lewd and blasphemous discourses of his Excellency and his cabal . His Excellency presented this worthy divine to one of the ...
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... appeared on August 3rd , 1710 . Swift managed it from No. 14 ( November 2nd , 1710 ) to the forty - fifth issue ( June 7th , 1711 ) . For a full account of the " Examiner " see note prefixed to the volume containing Swift's ...
... appeared on August 3rd , 1710 . Swift managed it from No. 14 ( November 2nd , 1710 ) to the forty - fifth issue ( June 7th , 1711 ) . For a full account of the " Examiner " see note prefixed to the volume containing Swift's ...
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... appeared . Parliament met on the 6th of December , and opened by an attack from Notting- ham . In spite of the fact that Nottingham's motion , which was really intended to destroy the chances for a peace , was carried by a majority of ...
... appeared . Parliament met on the 6th of December , and opened by an attack from Notting- ham . In spite of the fact that Nottingham's motion , which was really intended to destroy the chances for a peace , was carried by a majority of ...
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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?