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" ... say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since. "
The Present State of Wit, in a Letter to a Friend in the Country - Page 509
by John Gay - 1711
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 47

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...which they had little or no notion before ; and though we cannot yet fay that any of them have come op to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture...that every one of them writes and thinks much more juftly than they did forae time fir.ce.' Next follow?, " A Moden Enquiry into the Reafons of trie Joy...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volume 18

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 484 pages
...upon a new way of thinking, of which they had little or no notion before ; and though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties...some time since. The vast variety of subjects which he has treated of in so different a manner, and yet all so perfectly well, made the world believe that...
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Letters. Index

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 476 pages
...upon a new way of thinking, of which they had little or no notion before ; and though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties...some time since. The vast variety of subjects which he has treated of in so different a manner, and yet all so perfectly well, made the world believe that...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volume 18

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 490 pages
...they had little or no notion before ; and though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up tothe beauties of the original, I think we may venture to...some time since. The vast variety of subjects which he has treated of in so different a manner, and yet all so perfectly well, made the world believe that...
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The Works, Volume 24

Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 pages
...cannot yet say that any of them have come up 10 the beauties of the original, I think we may venturf to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks...some time since. The vast variety of subjects which he has treated pf in so different a manner, and yet all so perfectly well, made the world believe that...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...upon a new way of thinking, of which they had little or no notion before ; and though tve cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties...think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them imtes and thinks much more justly than tltey did some time since*." Of the almost immediate utility...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 18

Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 pages
...upon a new way of thinking, of which they had little or no notion before; and though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties...some time since. The vast variety of subjects which he has treated of in so different a manner, and yet all so perfectly well, made the world believe that...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1810 - 438 pages
...and men of letters upon anew way of thinking, of which they but had little or no notion before — Every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.' Some facts, however, relative to this period, have escaped his industry. Budgell declares that 20,000...
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Select Reviews, Volume 2

1809 - 448 pages
...upon a nc-*- Way of thinking, of which they h:ul hut little or no notion hefore — Kvery one of tliem writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since." Some facts, however, relative to this period, have escaped his industry, iludgell declares, that 20,00u...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D. D

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 686 pages
...upon a new way of thinking, of which they had little or no notion before ; and though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties...some time since. The vast variety of subjects which he has treated of in so different a manner, and yet all so perfectly well, made the world believe that...
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