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Page 113
... mind . If it be faid , that riches and honours depend on a thousand things which we cannot difpofe of at pleasure , and that therefore it is neceffary to pray to God that he would turn them to our ad- vantage ; I answer , that the ...
... mind . If it be faid , that riches and honours depend on a thousand things which we cannot difpofe of at pleasure , and that therefore it is neceffary to pray to God that he would turn them to our ad- vantage ; I answer , that the ...
Page 216
... mind , as one that he wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inferted in the 3d vol . of Letters , page 157. He frequently , and ably , and warmly , in many conversations , defended the cause of revelation against the * " I ...
... mind , as one that he wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inferted in the 3d vol . of Letters , page 157. He frequently , and ably , and warmly , in many conversations , defended the cause of revelation against the * " I ...
Page 258
... mind . the wicked wafp of Twickenham , his lyes affect me now no more ; they will be all as much despised as the story of the feraglio and the handkerchief , of which I am perfuaded he was the only inventor . That man has a malignant ...
... mind . the wicked wafp of Twickenham , his lyes affect me now no more ; they will be all as much despised as the story of the feraglio and the handkerchief , of which I am perfuaded he was the only inventor . That man has a malignant ...
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