The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...J.F. and C. Rivington, 1787 - 488 páginas |
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... best provision for any one fo educated . Or elfe , encouraged by the hopeful expectations raised from the distinguished figure he made in the College , they would have pufhed all their intereft to have gotten him fome fmall preferment ...
... best provision for any one fo educated . Or elfe , encouraged by the hopeful expectations raised from the distinguished figure he made in the College , they would have pufhed all their intereft to have gotten him fome fmall preferment ...
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... best way to obtain a general knowledge of that , was from hiftory ; and a more particular view of it , from ftudying mankind . He could not poffibly have been better fituated than at Moor - Park , to have made obfervations on the higher ...
... best way to obtain a general knowledge of that , was from hiftory ; and a more particular view of it , from ftudying mankind . He could not poffibly have been better fituated than at Moor - Park , to have made obfervations on the higher ...
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... best scholars ) and that he was thence removed to another Lyceum , where prefided a fage , in whom were blended Socratic wisdom , Stoical virtue , and Epicurean elegance ; we muft allow his lot to have been moft happily caft for forming ...
... best scholars ) and that he was thence removed to another Lyceum , where prefided a fage , in whom were blended Socratic wisdom , Stoical virtue , and Epicurean elegance ; we muft allow his lot to have been moft happily caft for forming ...
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... best apology to him that he could , and at the fame . time promifing to make him amends , by beftowing on him the first good church preferment that should fall in his gift . Swift was not a man to be treated in this manner with impunity ...
... best apology to him that he could , and at the fame . time promifing to make him amends , by beftowing on him the first good church preferment that should fall in his gift . Swift was not a man to be treated in this manner with impunity ...
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... best way to keep them wakeful , was to make them laugh . It was at this juncture too he chofe to publifh his po- litical principles . Swift had been hitherto always claff- ed among the Whigs , as the only political tract of his which ...
... best way to keep them wakeful , was to make them laugh . It was at this juncture too he chofe to publifh his po- litical principles . Swift had been hitherto always claff- ed among the Whigs , as the only political tract of his which ...
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