The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
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... seems to have directed mankind to correct this muscular immo- rality by tying fuch fellows neck and heels . CONTRARY to this , is the pernicious cuftom of mothers , * Μασσητήρες μύες . who who abolished the natural fignature of modefty ...
... seems to have directed mankind to correct this muscular immo- rality by tying fuch fellows neck and heels . CONTRARY to this , is the pernicious cuftom of mothers , * Μασσητήρες μύες . who who abolished the natural fignature of modefty ...
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... seems to me an undoubted phy- fical maxim ; that poetry is a natural morbid fecretion from the brain . As I would not fuddenly ftop a cold in the head , or dry up my neighbour's iffue , I would as little . hinder him from neceffary ...
... seems to me an undoubted phy- fical maxim ; that poetry is a natural morbid fecretion from the brain . As I would not fuddenly ftop a cold in the head , or dry up my neighbour's iffue , I would as little . hinder him from neceffary ...
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... seem to have communicated themselves only to thofe men , who retired from the converfe of their own fpecies to a more uninterrupted life of contemplation . I am much inclined to believe , that in the midst of those folitudes they in ...
... seem to have communicated themselves only to thofe men , who retired from the converfe of their own fpecies to a more uninterrupted life of contemplation . I am much inclined to believe , that in the midst of those folitudes they in ...
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... seems , is the printer of his Homer . This gen- tleman , with a seeming coolness , reprimanded Mr Curll for wrongfully afcribing to him the aforefaid poems : he ex- cufed himself by declaring , that one of his authors ( Mr Oldmixon by ...
... seems , is the printer of his Homer . This gen- tleman , with a seeming coolness , reprimanded Mr Curll for wrongfully afcribing to him the aforefaid poems : he ex- cufed himself by declaring , that one of his authors ( Mr Oldmixon by ...
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