The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Including the Whole of His Posthumous Pieces, Letters, &c, Volume 9C. Elliot, 1766 |
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... Prince Eugene and of Count Sin- zendorf , relating to the Barrier Reprefentation of the English Merchants at Bruges relating to the Barrier - treaty 193 197 A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction to the third Volume of his Hiftory of ...
... Prince Eugene and of Count Sin- zendorf , relating to the Barrier Reprefentation of the English Merchants at Bruges relating to the Barrier - treaty 193 197 A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction to the third Volume of his Hiftory of ...
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... prince takes a much more effec- tual way than that of fending orators to appease them but Mr. Steele imagines fuch a crowd of people as this , where there is no government at all ; their unruliness quelled , and their paffions cool- ed ...
... prince takes a much more effec- tual way than that of fending orators to appease them but Mr. Steele imagines fuch a crowd of people as this , where there is no government at all ; their unruliness quelled , and their paffions cool- ed ...
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... prince or flate , who is guarantee , whatever neceffity may happen in future times . Now , if it be high treason to affirm by writing , that the legislature hath no fuch power ; and if Mr. Steele thinks it strange , that Britain fhould ...
... prince or flate , who is guarantee , whatever neceffity may happen in future times . Now , if it be high treason to affirm by writing , that the legislature hath no fuch power ; and if Mr. Steele thinks it strange , that Britain fhould ...
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... prince of great capacity , in ftritt alliance with France , and may therefore very well add to our fears of a popish fucceffor . Is it the fault of the pre- fent , or of any ministry , that this prince put in his claim ; must we give ...
... prince of great capacity , in ftritt alliance with France , and may therefore very well add to our fears of a popish fucceffor . Is it the fault of the pre- fent , or of any ministry , that this prince put in his claim ; must we give ...
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... prince in- deed , who will not have the hearts and hands of ninety - nine in an hundred among his fubjects a- gainst fuch a popish pretender . I have been the longer in anfwering the feventh queftion , because it led me to confider all ...
... prince in- deed , who will not have the hearts and hands of ninety - nine in an hundred among his fubjects a- gainst fuch a popish pretender . I have been the longer in anfwering the feventh queftion , because it led me to confider all ...
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