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... writer has his readers , so the greatest liar has his believers : and it often happens , that if a lie be believed only for an hour , it has done its work , and there is no farther occasion for it . Fals- hood flies , and truth comes ...
... writer has his readers , so the greatest liar has his believers : and it often happens , that if a lie be believed only for an hour , it has done its work , and there is no farther occasion for it . Fals- hood flies , and truth comes ...
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... writers phrase , they gave me occasion for many speculations . I observed , with singular pleasure , the nature of those things which the owners of them usually call answers , and with what dexterity this matchless author had fallen ...
... writers phrase , they gave me occasion for many speculations . I observed , with singular pleasure , the nature of those things which the owners of them usually call answers , and with what dexterity this matchless author had fallen ...
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... writers I have spoken of above , are like a couple of makebates , who inflame small quarrels by * This is neither grammar , nor sense ; it should be - as my whole discourse contains . † It should be , so fully and clearly . a thou- a ...
... writers I have spoken of above , are like a couple of makebates , who inflame small quarrels by * This is neither grammar , nor sense ; it should be - as my whole discourse contains . † It should be , so fully and clearly . a thou- a ...
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... writers of late have made themselves so merry : I confess , it is hard to conceive how any law , which the supreme power makes , may not by the same power be repealed ; so that I shall not determine , whether the queen's right be ...
... writers of late have made themselves so merry : I confess , it is hard to conceive how any law , which the supreme power makes , may not by the same power be repealed ; so that I shall not determine , whether the queen's right be ...
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... writers ; which is , that of looking * Lord Godolphin . + Earl of Sunderland , and Henry Boyle , Efq . were at this time secretaries of state . + Lord Chancellor Cowper . into history for some character bearing a resemblance to the into ...
... writers ; which is , that of looking * Lord Godolphin . + Earl of Sunderland , and Henry Boyle , Efq . were at this time secretaries of state . + Lord Chancellor Cowper . into history for some character bearing a resemblance to the into ...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 3 Jonathan Swift Visualização completa - 1808 |
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 3 Jonathan Swift Visualização completa - 1808 |
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 3 Jonathan Swift Visualização completa - 1808 |
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