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READER . It is now six years since these papers came first to my hand , which
seems to have been about a twelvemonth after they were written : for the author
tells us in his preface to the first treatise , that he has calculated it for the year
1697 ...
READER . It is now six years since these papers came first to my hand , which
seems to have been about a twelvemonth after they were written : for the author
tells us in his preface to the first treatise , that he has calculated it for the year
1697 ...
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... it is reasonable the courteous reader should have some little light . . It is
intended , that a large academy be erected , capable of containing nine thousand
seven hundred forty and three persons ; which , by modest computation , is
reckoned ...
... it is reasonable the courteous reader should have some little light . . It is
intended , that a large academy be erected , capable of containing nine thousand
seven hundred forty and three persons ; which , by modest computation , is
reckoned ...
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... should descend to the very bottom of all the sublime , throughout this treatise ; I
hold fit to lay down this general maxim : whatever reader desires to have a
thorough comprehension of an author ' s thoughts , cannot take a better method ,
than ...
... should descend to the very bottom of all the sublime , throughout this treatise ; I
hold fit to lay down this general maxim : whatever reader desires to have a
thorough comprehension of an author ' s thoughts , cannot take a better method ,
than ...
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But , here the severe reader may justly tax me as a writer of short memory , a
deficiency to which a true modern cannot but , of necessity , be a little subject .
Because , memory being an employment of the mind upon things past , is a
faculty , for ...
But , here the severe reader may justly tax me as a writer of short memory , a
deficiency to which a true modern cannot but , of necessity , be a little subject .
Because , memory being an employment of the mind upon things past , is a
faculty , for ...
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ing , or upon what species of brain it ascends ; it will be a very delicate point to
cut the feather , and divide the several reasons to a nice and curious reader , how
this numerical difference in the brain can produce effects of so vast a difference ...
ing , or upon what species of brain it ascends ; it will be a very delicate point to
cut the feather , and divide the several reasons to a nice and curious reader , how
this numerical difference in the brain can produce effects of so vast a difference ...
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| Título | The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Volumen11 The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, sir Walter Scott (bart) |
| Autor | Jonathan Swift |
| Editor | sir Walter Scott (bart) |
| Publicado | 1814 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 12 Jun. 2007 |
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