The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 10G. Bell, 1907 |
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... and perspicuity not being in general the favourite objects of ministers , and perhaps still less so of that minister than any other . " - [ CHESTERFIELD . ] any means think of preserving our civil or religious constitu- 5.
... and perspicuity not being in general the favourite objects of ministers , and perhaps still less so of that minister than any other . " - [ CHESTERFIELD . ] any means think of preserving our civil or religious constitu- 5.
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... less to your honour . My lord , I do here , in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation , complain to your lordship , as first minister , that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily improvements are by ...
... less to your honour . My lord , I do here , in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation , complain to your lordship , as first minister , that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily improvements are by ...
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... less than seven hundred years ) as the Latin appears to have done in the like term . Whether our language , or the French , will decline as fast as the Roman did , is a question , that ་ After the Norman conquest , French , the language ...
... less than seven hundred years ) as the Latin appears to have done in the like term . Whether our language , or the French , will decline as fast as the Roman did , is a question , that ་ After the Norman conquest , French , the language ...
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... less subject than kingdoms upon the continent ) 1 How mistaken Swift was need hardly be pointed out to any student of modern French literature . The very inconstancy of the French people which Swift here cites an evil , has , if it be ...
... less subject than kingdoms upon the continent ) 1 How mistaken Swift was need hardly be pointed out to any student of modern French literature . The very inconstancy of the French people which Swift here cites an evil , has , if it be ...
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... less by antiquaries who make it their study to expound them . And we must , at this day , have been content with such poor abstracts of our English story , as laborious men of low genius would think fit to give us ; and even these , in ...
... less by antiquaries who make it their study to expound them . And we must , at this day , have been content with such poor abstracts of our English story , as laborious men of low genius would think fit to give us ; and even these , in ...
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