The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Historical and political tracts-EnglishG. Bell, 1901 |
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... taken care of the receipt and payment of the money , without any farther charge to the public ; and appointed his second sec- retary , Mr. Denton , to be paymaster , whose salary was a charge of above five hundred pounds in the whole ...
... taken care of the receipt and payment of the money , without any farther charge to the public ; and appointed his second sec- retary , Mr. Denton , to be paymaster , whose salary was a charge of above five hundred pounds in the whole ...
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... taken up , to scatter their menaces in every paper they publish ; it may perhaps look absurd , ridiculous and impudent in people at mercy to assume such a style ; but the design is right , to endeavour persuading the world that it is ...
... taken up , to scatter their menaces in every paper they publish ; it may perhaps look absurd , ridiculous and impudent in people at mercy to assume such a style ; but the design is right , to endeavour persuading the world that it is ...
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... taken in the cabinet two months before the committee of the House was appointed to re - examine him ? Why was he pressed so close to cry out with horror , " Good God , would you have me accuse Mr. Harley when he is wholly innocent ...
... taken in the cabinet two months before the committee of the House was appointed to re - examine him ? Why was he pressed so close to cry out with horror , " Good God , would you have me accuse Mr. Harley when he is wholly innocent ...
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... taken to make our allies pay their quotas to the war , which was a thing so scandalously either neglected , connived at , or encouraged ? What , of the care to retrench the exorbitant expenses of the Spanish war ? What , of those many ...
... taken to make our allies pay their quotas to the war , which was a thing so scandalously either neglected , connived at , or encouraged ? What , of the care to retrench the exorbitant expenses of the Spanish war ? What , of those many ...
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... taken . Then they tell us what high articles were insisted on by our ministers and those of the con- 1 The Godolphin Administration , termed by Mahon " the_great Whig administration of Queen Anne , " fell in November , 1710. [ T. S. ] 2 ...
... taken . Then they tell us what high articles were insisted on by our ministers and those of the con- 1 The Godolphin Administration , termed by Mahon " the_great Whig administration of Queen Anne , " fell in November , 1710. [ T. S. ] 2 ...
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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?