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Page viii
So indispensable had he made himself to the ministers that his slightest fancies
had but to be expressed to find fulfilment . With the successful issue to each effort
came to his contemporaries the realization of the master - mind that had arisen ...
So indispensable had he made himself to the ministers that his slightest fancies
had but to be expressed to find fulfilment . With the successful issue to each effort
came to his contemporaries the realization of the master - mind that had arisen ...
Page xi
One can but dimly appreciate his feelings on finding himself serving as a Grub
Street hack ; and one need not be surprised that he took occasion by the ear and
stalked the antechambers of the ministers as if he were the man and not they .
One can but dimly appreciate his feelings on finding himself serving as a Grub
Street hack ; and one need not be surprised that he took occasion by the ear and
stalked the antechambers of the ministers as if he were the man and not they .
Page 25
... and made them give the case against Rooke . When the prosecution against
the dissenting minister at Drogheda was depending , one Stevens a lawyer in
this town ( Dublin ) , sent his Excellency , then in London , a petition in the name
of ...
... and made them give the case against Rooke . When the prosecution against
the dissenting minister at Drogheda was depending , one Stevens a lawyer in
this town ( Dublin ) , sent his Excellency , then in London , a petition in the name
of ...
Page 41
His parallel case is this ; “ Supposing Guiscard ' had been intimate with some
great officer of state , and had been suspected to communicate his most secret
affairs with that minister ; " then he asks , “ Whether it would have been
subornation ...
His parallel case is this ; “ Supposing Guiscard ' had been intimate with some
great officer of state , and had been suspected to communicate his most secret
affairs with that minister ; " then he asks , “ Whether it would have been
subornation ...
Page 43
God preserve the Queen and her ministers from such undistinguishing disposers
of heads . His remarks upon what the ordinary told Hoffman , are singular enough
. The ordinary's words are , that “ so many endeavours were used to corrupt ...
God preserve the Queen and her ministers from such undistinguishing disposers
of heads . His remarks upon what the ordinary told Hoffman , are singular enough
. The ordinary's words are , that “ so many endeavours were used to corrupt ...
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| Title | The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Historical and political tracts-English Bohn's standard library Volume 5 of The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Editors | Temple Scott, Frederick Ryland, George Ravenscroft Dennis |
| Contributor | William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
| Publisher | G. Bell, 1901 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2006 |
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