The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Historical and political tracts-EnglishG. Bell, 1901 |
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Page 44
... offering him any thing to quiet his conscience , that on the contrary they gave a great disturbance to it . ' " - The Ordinary's Letter to Francis Hoffman in " Secret Transactions . " 2 The library of Harley , who had just been created ...
... offering him any thing to quiet his conscience , that on the contrary they gave a great disturbance to it . ' " - The Ordinary's Letter to Francis Hoffman in " Secret Transactions . " 2 The library of Harley , who had just been created ...
Page 61
... offering one single reason , but what we find in their ballads . I lay it down for a maxim , That no reasonable man , whether Whig or Tory ( since it is necessary to use those foolish terms ) can be of opinion for continuing the war ...
... offering one single reason , but what we find in their ballads . I lay it down for a maxim , That no reasonable man , whether Whig or Tory ( since it is necessary to use those foolish terms ) can be of opinion for continuing the war ...
Page 70
... offered by K. Charles , as well as by us , prevailed with that prince to enter into the alliance . The Duke of Savoy's ... offer putting a king upon us ; and the Spaniards would conceive , we had as little reason to force one upon them ...
... offered by K. Charles , as well as by us , prevailed with that prince to enter into the alliance . The Duke of Savoy's ... offer putting a king upon us ; and the Spaniards would conceive , we had as little reason to force one upon them ...
Page 71
... offering at any other remedy , with- out taking time to consider the consequences , or to reflect on our own condition , we hastily engaged in a war which hath cost us sixty millions ; and after repeated , as well as unexpected success ...
... offering at any other remedy , with- out taking time to consider the consequences , or to reflect on our own condition , we hastily engaged in a war which hath cost us sixty millions ; and after repeated , as well as unexpected success ...
Page 75
... offers of a peace so ruinous to us as such a war . Posterity will be at a loss to conceive what kind of spirit could possess their ancestors , who after ten years suffering , by the unexampled politics of a nation , maintaining a war by ...
... offers of a peace so ruinous to us as such a war . Posterity will be at a loss to conceive what kind of spirit could possess their ancestors , who after ten years suffering , by the unexampled politics of a nation , maintaining a war by ...
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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?