The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 10G. Bell, 1907 |
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... late authors to introduce and multi- ply cant words , which is the most ruinous corruption in any language.1 La Bruyère , a late celebrated writer among them , makes use of many new terms , which are not to be found in any of the common ...
... late authors to introduce and multi- ply cant words , which is the most ruinous corruption in any language.1 La Bruyère , a late celebrated writer among them , makes use of many new terms , which are not to be found in any of the common ...
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... late years , that we ought to spell exactly as we speak ; which , beside the obvious inconvenience of utterly destroying our etymology , would be a thing we should never see an end of . Not only the several towns and counties of England ...
... late years , that we ought to spell exactly as we speak ; which , beside the obvious inconvenience of utterly destroying our etymology , would be a thing we should never see an end of . Not only the several towns and counties of England ...
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... late the style of some great ministers very much to exceed that of any other productions . The persons who are to undertake this work , will have the example of the French before them , to imitate where these have proceeded right , and ...
... late the style of some great ministers very much to exceed that of any other productions . The persons who are to undertake this work , will have the example of the French before them , to imitate where these have proceeded right , and ...
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... late meeting of our University1 upon the subject of our precedence , between professors of law and physic . And , though I can't join in opinion with the worthy gentleman who first moved in it , I must needs say the motion was ...
... late meeting of our University1 upon the subject of our precedence , between professors of law and physic . And , though I can't join in opinion with the worthy gentleman who first moved in it , I must needs say the motion was ...
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... late ; it should neither rest upon that slight baffle it received at its first appearance in public , nor be hushed up in silence under the pretence of any private accommodation , which the parties concerned have since come to , for the ...
... late ; it should neither rest upon that slight baffle it received at its first appearance in public , nor be hushed up in silence under the pretence of any private accommodation , which the parties concerned have since come to , for the ...
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