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... give the best text and to admit nothing that Swift did not write . In the preparation of the volume the editor has received such assistance from Mr. W. Spencer Jackson that it might with stricter justice be said that he had edited it ...
... give the best text and to admit nothing that Swift did not write . In the preparation of the volume the editor has received such assistance from Mr. W. Spencer Jackson that it might with stricter justice be said that he had edited it ...
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... gives characteristic expression to the motive which prompted him in its establishment . " The state of conversation and business in this town , ' says Steele , " having been long perplexed with pretenders in both kinds , in order to ...
... gives characteristic expression to the motive which prompted him in its establishment . " The state of conversation and business in this town , ' says Steele , " having been long perplexed with pretenders in both kinds , in order to ...
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... give the gentleman my opinion . This paper is written in ridicule of some affected ladies of the period , who pretended , with rather too much ostentation , to embrace the doctrines of Platonic Love . Mrs. Mary Astell , a learned and ...
... give the gentleman my opinion . This paper is written in ridicule of some affected ladies of the period , who pretended , with rather too much ostentation , to embrace the doctrines of Platonic Love . Mrs. Mary Astell , a learned and ...
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... gives very fine views of pleasure , which only the dear declaimer prevents , by understanding them literally . Why should she wish to be a cherubim , when it is flesh and blood that makes her adorable ? If I speak to her , that is a ...
... gives very fine views of pleasure , which only the dear declaimer prevents , by understanding them literally . Why should she wish to be a cherubim , when it is flesh and blood that makes her adorable ? If I speak to her , that is a ...
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... give me leave to present this gentleman to the favour of a civil salute . " His friend advances , and so on , till that they had all saluted her . By this means , the poor girl was in the middle of the crowd of these fellows , at a loss ...
... give me leave to present this gentleman to the favour of a civil salute . " His friend advances , and so on , till that they had all saluted her . By this means , the poor girl was in the middle of the crowd of these fellows , at a loss ...
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