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A Select Collection of Original Letters: Written by the Most Eminent Persons ... - Page 268
1755
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Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick ...

John Boyle Earl of Orrery - 1752 - 368 pages
...fearing to difcompofe him. He walked ten hours a day, would not eat or drink if hit fervant flayed in the room. His meat was ferved up ready cut, and...fometimes it would lie an hour on the table before he wottld touch it, and then eat it -walking. About fix weeks ago, in one night's time, his left eye fwelled...
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Remarks on the Life and writings of dr. Jonathan Swift

John Boyle (5th earl of Cork and Orrery.) - 1752 - 238 pages
...fervant jtayeii in the room. His meat ivas fer-ved up ready cut, and fometimes it woujd lie an hoar an the table before he would touch it, and then eat it walking. About Jtx weeks ago, in one night's time, his left eye fondled at large as an egg, and the lid Mr. NICHOLS...
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The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...

Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 486 pages
...fearing to difcompofe him. He walked ten hours a-day, would not eat nor drink if his fervant fbiid in the room. His meat was ferved up ready cut,, and...fwelled as large as an egg, and the lid Mr Nichols (his furgeon) thought would mortify, and many large boils appeared upon his arms and body. The torture he...
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The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc ..., Volume 8

Jonathan Swift - 1761 - 424 pages
...me, fearing to difcompofe him. He walked ten hours a-day, would not eat or drink if his fervant ftaid in the room. His meat was ferved up ready cut, and...fwelled as large as an egg, and the lid Mr Nichols (his furgeon) thought would mortify, and many large boils appeared upon his arms and body. The torture he...
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The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen ...

Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 400 pages
...me, fearing to difcbmpofe him. He walked ten hours a-day, would not eat or drink if his fervant ftaid in the room. His meat was ferved up ready cut, and...it would lie an hour on the table before he would My LoRD, Dublin. Nov 22. 1742. touch it, and then eat it walking. About fix weeks ago, in one night's...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ..., Volume 11

Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - 444 pages
...fearing to difcompofe him. He walked ten hours a-day, \*ould not eat or drink if his fervant ftaid in, the room. His meat was ferved up ready cut, and...as large as an. egg, .and the lid, Mr Nichols, (his furgeon) thought would, mortify, and many large boils appeared upon his arms and body. The torture...
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The Letter Writer: Containing a Great Variety of Letters on the Following ...

1827 - 292 pages
...not eat or drink if his servant stayed in the room. His meat was served up ready" cut, and sometimes it would lie an hour on the table before he would touch it, and then eat it walking. About six weeks ago, in one night's time, his left eye swelled as large as an egg, and the lid, Mr. Nicholls,...
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The Letter Writer: Containing a Great Variety of Letters on the Following ...

1831 - 162 pages
...not eat or drink if his servant stayed in the room. His meat was served up ready cut, and sometimes it would lie an hour on the table before he would touch it, and then eat if walking. About six weeks ago, in one night's time, his left eyeswelled as large as an egg, and the...
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The New Parlor Letter Writer: Containing a Great Variety of Letters on the ...

1849 - 156 pages
...not eut or drink if his servant stayed in the room. His meat was served up ready cut, and sometimes it would lie an hour on the table before he would touch it, and then eat it walking. About six weeks ago, in one night's lime, his left eyeswelled as large as an egg, and the lid, Mr. IS'icholls,...
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Le Petit Secretaire Parisien: Or, the Art of Reading Familiar English ...

Louis Philippe R. Fenwick de Porquet - 1849 - 246 pages
...not eat or drink if his servant staid in the room. His meat was served up ready cut, and sometimes it would lie an hour on the table before he would touch it, and then eat it walking. About six weeks ago, in one night's time, his left eye swelled as large as an egg, and the lid, Mr. Nicholls,...
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