The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift (Volume 19); With Notes, Historical and Critical - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808. Excerpt: ... mixture of fubllme and vulgar imagery in it offenfive to tafle, xviii. 46. Mr. Pope's reflexions on its belt ufe, vi. 349. note. Poets. Vicrfes on two celebrated mvdein ones, xvii. 312. Have contributed to the fpoiling of the Engli/h tongue, iv. 475. A good poet can no more do without a good flock of fimilies, than a Ihoemaker without his lafts, vi. 362. One who is pro-vident can by no means fubfift without a commonplace hook, 364. Number of them in London and its fuburbs, xvii. 214. Immortalize none but themfclves, ix. 287. Polcmia ('John Bull's eldeft daughter). Her character, xviii. 227. Polidorc (fir). What the wrong fide of his office, x. 297. Polignac (abbe de). His charadler, vi. 244. Polite Conversation, xvii. 3ig. Politenefs. When at its greatefl height in England and France,. Politicians. Few of them fo ufeful in a commonwealth as an honeft farmer, viii. 185. A maxim learned from them, xiii. 171. Allegorize all the animal economy into Mate affairs, x. 401. Secrecy one of their mofl dirVmguilhing qualities, xi. T. Other requisites to them, ibid. King of fiance efta-blifhes an academy for iheir inftrudtion, ibid. A maxim held by them, xiii. 171. Politics. Reduced to a fcience by the wits of Europe, vii. 179. A rule in them among a free people, iii. 7. Nothing re-quired for a knowledge in them but common fenfe, v. 247. What they are in the common acceptation of the word, ix. 297. An uncontrollable maxim in them, 8. One caufe of the want of brotherly love, 163. In all ages, too little religion mingled with them, 165. Why all courts are fo full of them, 297. An expreflion, appropriated by the French to beauty, applicable to them, x. 176. To (how ill-will, with-out power of doing more, no good policy in a dependant people, 202. Never made by minifters...