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His high opinion of Lord Bolingbroke and Dr Swift as writers . LXXXIII . From Dr Swift . Of old age , and death of friends . More of the Ethic Epiftles . LXXXIV . Of the complaints of friends .--- One of the best comforts of old age .
His high opinion of Lord Bolingbroke and Dr Swift as writers . LXXXIII . From Dr Swift . Of old age , and death of friends . More of the Ethic Epiftles . LXXXIV . Of the complaints of friends .--- One of the best comforts of old age .
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I not only frequently think of you , but constantly do my best to make others do it , by mentioning you to all your acquaintance . I defire you to do the fame for me to those you are now with : do me what you think juftice in regard to ...
I not only frequently think of you , but constantly do my best to make others do it , by mentioning you to all your acquaintance . I defire you to do the fame for me to those you are now with : do me what you think juftice in regard to ...
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Your own prefent escape from fo imminent danger , I pray God may prove lefs precarious than my poor Mother's can be ; whofe life at best can be but a fhort Reprieve , or a longer dying . But I fear , even that is more than God will ...
Your own prefent escape from fo imminent danger , I pray God may prove lefs precarious than my poor Mother's can be ; whofe life at best can be but a fhort Reprieve , or a longer dying . But I fear , even that is more than God will ...
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He is their greatest favourite , who is the falsest : and when a man , by fuch vile gradations , arrives at the height of grandeur and power , he is then at best but in a circumstance to be hated , and in a condition to be hang'd ...
He is their greatest favourite , who is the falsest : and when a man , by fuch vile gradations , arrives at the height of grandeur and power , he is then at best but in a circumstance to be hated , and in a condition to be hang'd ...
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The worthiest Peer may live exemplarily in an ill favour'd houfe , and and the best reputed citizen be pleased with a vile garden . I thought ( I say ) the author had the common liberty to obferve a defect , and to compliment a friend ...
The worthiest Peer may live exemplarily in an ill favour'd houfe , and and the best reputed citizen be pleased with a vile garden . I thought ( I say ) the author had the common liberty to obferve a defect , and to compliment a friend ...
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