The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published, Том 9Bickers, 1883 |
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... virtue in their proper figures , and shew so much concern for them as to give them all the additional force they were able , it is not possible that nonsense should have so many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congrega- tions ...
... virtue in their proper figures , and shew so much concern for them as to give them all the additional force they were able , it is not possible that nonsense should have so many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congrega- tions ...
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... virtue , if the person be not equally famous . When the first table is filled , the next in renown must be seated at the second , and so on in like manner to the number of twenty ; as also in the same order at the third , which is to ...
... virtue , if the person be not equally famous . When the first table is filled , the next in renown must be seated at the second , and so on in like manner to the number of twenty ; as also in the same order at the third , which is to ...
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... virtue , ) to ask my sister Jenny's advice ; and particularly mentioned to her the name of Aristotle . She immediately told me he was a very great scholar , and that she had read him at the boarding - school . She certainly means a ...
... virtue , ) to ask my sister Jenny's advice ; and particularly mentioned to her the name of Aristotle . She immediately told me he was a very great scholar , and that she had read him at the boarding - school . She certainly means a ...
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... virtue , but a diabolical prejudice against it , which makes men willing to destroy what they care not to imitate . Thus you see the greatest characters among your acquaintance , and those you live with , are traduced by all below them ...
... virtue , but a diabolical prejudice against it , which makes men willing to destroy what they care not to imitate . Thus you see the greatest characters among your acquaintance , and those you live with , are traduced by all below them ...
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... virtue . If it appear that they go on in encouraging them , they must be proceeded against according to the severest rules of history , where all is to be laid before the world with impar- tiality , and without respect to persons , " So ...
... virtue . If it appear that they go on in encouraging them , they must be proceeded against according to the severest rules of history , where all is to be laid before the world with impar- tiality , and without respect to persons , " So ...
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