The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Historical and political tracts-EnglishG. Bell, 1901 |
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... clergy of Ireland . He left it finally , nearly four years later , a disappointed and saddened man , it is true , but his name had become a synonym for power . In those four years he had advanced from a seeker of favours into a dis ...
... clergy of Ireland . He left it finally , nearly four years later , a disappointed and saddened man , it is true , but his name had become a synonym for power . In those four years he had advanced from a seeker of favours into a dis ...
Page 35
... clergy with the most odious crimes and opinions ? In declaring all who took oaths to the government , and called themselves Tories , to be worse than papists and non- jurors ? In exposing the universities , as seminaries of the most ...
... clergy with the most odious crimes and opinions ? In declaring all who took oaths to the government , and called themselves Tories , to be worse than papists and non- jurors ? In exposing the universities , as seminaries of the most ...
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... clergy their leaders . We have often accused that party for their evil talent of railing perpetually against the clergy , which they discovered at first without any visible reason or pro- vocation , as conscious of the designs they had ...
... clergy their leaders . We have often accused that party for their evil talent of railing perpetually against the clergy , which they discovered at first without any visible reason or pro- vocation , as conscious of the designs they had ...
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... clergy : Neither do I remember they have been ever able to make any of them tools , except by making them bishops ... clergy are ready to be instruments of any good to the prince or people . But that the clergy of England , since the ...
... clergy : Neither do I remember they have been ever able to make any of them tools , except by making them bishops ... clergy are ready to be instruments of any good to the prince or people . But that the clergy of England , since the ...
Page 318
... clergy , a preface , an extract from certain acts of parliament , and about ten pages of dry reflec- tions on the proceedings of the Queen and her servants ; which his coadjutors , the Earl of Nottingham , Mr. Dunton , and the " Flying ...
... clergy , a preface , an extract from certain acts of parliament , and about ten pages of dry reflec- tions on the proceedings of the Queen and her servants ; which his coadjutors , the Earl of Nottingham , Mr. Dunton , and the " Flying ...
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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?