THE WORKS OF THE Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 3C. BATHURST, in Fleetstreet, 1760 |
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... seem naturally to divide ; for by all I have read of those innumerable and petty commonwealths in Italy , Greece , and Sicily , as well as the great ones of Carthage and Rome , it seems to me , that a free people met together , whether ...
... seem naturally to divide ; for by all I have read of those innumerable and petty commonwealths in Italy , Greece , and Sicily , as well as the great ones of Carthage and Rome , it seems to me , that a free people met together , whether ...
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... seems they were at all times apt to fall into , and was at laft among the caufes , that ruined their state : and the frequent murders of their generals , which ‡ Diodorus tells us was grown to an established custom among them , may be ...
... seems they were at all times apt to fall into , and was at laft among the caufes , that ruined their state : and the frequent murders of their generals , which ‡ Diodorus tells us was grown to an established custom among them , may be ...
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... seems , raised a spirit they were not able to lay . And this laft circumftance , as cafes have lately ftood , may perhaps be worth nothing . From what hath been already advanced , feveral con- clufions may be drawn : First , That a ...
... seems , raised a spirit they were not able to lay . And this laft circumftance , as cafes have lately ftood , may perhaps be worth nothing . From what hath been already advanced , feveral con- clufions may be drawn : First , That a ...
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... seems , the country government by the Romans . about Attica was the moft barren of any in Greece ; through which means it happened , that the natives were never expelled by the fury of invaders , ( who thought it not worth a conqueft ) ...
... seems , the country government by the Romans . about Attica was the moft barren of any in Greece ; through which means it happened , that the natives were never expelled by the fury of invaders , ( who thought it not worth a conqueft ) ...
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... seems the people obferved fomewhat of haughtiness in his temper and behaviour , and therefore banished him for five years ; but finding fome flight matter of accufation against him , they fent to seize his perfon , and he hardly escaped ...
... seems the people obferved fomewhat of haughtiness in his temper and behaviour , and therefore banished him for five years ; but finding fome flight matter of accufation against him , they fent to seize his perfon , and he hardly escaped ...
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