The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 1A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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Page xi
... faid to be appren- ticed at feven years of age inftead of eleven ; which is evidently wrong , as the author fupposes the age of fif- teen with them , to anfwer that of one and twenty with us ; a proportion which will be nearly kept , by ...
... faid to be appren- ticed at feven years of age inftead of eleven ; which is evidently wrong , as the author fupposes the age of fif- teen with them , to anfwer that of one and twenty with us ; a proportion which will be nearly kept , by ...
Page xii
... faid to be five years instead of three , though he tells us he was set on fhore there in 1711 , and departed in 1714 . Voyage to the Houyhnhmus . Compare the beginning of chap . i . with chap . xi . ; of which fee also the last para ...
... faid to be five years instead of three , though he tells us he was set on fhore there in 1711 , and departed in 1714 . Voyage to the Houyhnhmus . Compare the beginning of chap . i . with chap . xi . ; of which fee also the last para ...
Page xxii
... faid William commonly made ufe of ; and this is also now in the poffeffion of Godwin Swift above men- tioned . SECT . VII . His eldeft fon Thomas ** feems to have been a clergyman before his father's death . He was * Rather a gentleman ...
... faid William commonly made ufe of ; and this is also now in the poffeffion of Godwin Swift above men- tioned . SECT . VII . His eldeft fon Thomas ** feems to have been a clergyman before his father's death . He was * Rather a gentleman ...
Page xxiii
... faid , he would give the King his coat ; and stripping it off , prefented it to the go- vernor ; who obferving it to be worth little , Mr. Swift faid , Then take my waistcoat . He bid the governor weigh it in his hand ; who ordering it ...
... faid , he would give the King his coat ; and stripping it off , prefented it to the go- vernor ; who obferving it to be worth little , Mr. Swift faid , Then take my waistcoat . He bid the governor weigh it in his hand ; who ordering it ...
Page xxiv
... faid five . I fuppofe he forgot Dryden Swift , who died very young , and a batchelor , foon after he had come over to Ireland with his brothers . † Gyles Rawlins fucceeded him in the parish of Goodrich : but the other here mentioned ...
... faid five . I fuppofe he forgot Dryden Swift , who died very young , and a batchelor , foon after he had come over to Ireland with his brothers . † Gyles Rawlins fucceeded him in the parish of Goodrich : but the other here mentioned ...
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