The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1766 |
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... mean productions , equally offenfive to good manners and good fenfe , which we never saw nor heard of till they appeared in print . For a forgery in fetting a falfe name to a writing , which may prejudice another's fortune , the law ...
... mean productions , equally offenfive to good manners and good fenfe , which we never saw nor heard of till they appeared in print . For a forgery in fetting a falfe name to a writing , which may prejudice another's fortune , the law ...
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... means confined to any number , as might eafily appear from examples enough ; and be caufe the point is material , I fhall cite a few to prove The Romans having fent to Athens , and the Greek cities of Italy , for the copies of the best ...
... means confined to any number , as might eafily appear from examples enough ; and be caufe the point is material , I fhall cite a few to prove The Romans having fent to Athens , and the Greek cities of Italy , for the copies of the best ...
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... means of Gothic invention , but hath place in nature and reafon , feems very well to agree with the fentiments of most le- giflators , and to have been followed in most states , whether they have appeared under the name of monar- chies ...
... means of Gothic invention , but hath place in nature and reafon , feems very well to agree with the fentiments of most le- giflators , and to have been followed in most states , whether they have appeared under the name of monar- chies ...
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... mean , and below the dignity of a houfe , to quit a profecution ; to refolve upon a conclu fion before it is poffible to be apprifed of the premiffes : to act thus , I fay , is to affect not only abfolute power , but infallibility too ...
... mean , and below the dignity of a houfe , to quit a profecution ; to refolve upon a conclu fion before it is poffible to be apprifed of the premiffes : to act thus , I fay , is to affect not only abfolute power , but infallibility too ...
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... means it happened , that the natives were never expelled by the fury of invaders , ( who thought it not worth a conqueft ) , but continued always Aborigines ; and therefore retained through all revolu- tions a tincture of that turbulent ...
... means it happened , that the natives were never expelled by the fury of invaders , ( who thought it not worth a conqueft ) , but continued always Aborigines ; and therefore retained through all revolu- tions a tincture of that turbulent ...
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