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" SATIRE is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. "
A Tale of a Tub,: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which ... - Page 213
by Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1811 - 322 pages
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The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc ..., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - English literature - 1761 - 468 pages
...wherein beholders do generally difcover every body's face but their own ; which is the chief reafon for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that fo very few are offended with it. But if it fhould happen otherwife, the danger is not great ; and...
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The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 500 pages
...wherein beholders do generally difcover every body's face but their own ; which is the chief reafbn for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that fo very few are offended with it. But if it ihould happen otherwife, the danger is not great ; and...
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The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen ...

Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 376 pages
...wherein beholders doge^ nerally difcover every body's face but their own ; which is the chief reafon for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that fo very few are offended -with it. But if it fhould happen otherwife, the danger is not great; and...
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The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...

Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 474 pages
...wherein beholders do generally difcover every body's face, but their own ; which is the chief reafon for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that fo very few are offended with it. But if it fhould happen otherwife, the danger is not great ; and...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ..., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - 470 pages
...glafs, wherein behol do generally difcover every body's face but their own} which is the chief reafon for 'that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that fo very few are offended with it. But if it fhould happen otherwife, the danger is not great ; and...
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The Works, Volume 3

Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...generally discover every body's face, but their own ; which is the chief reason for that kind rereption it meets with in the world, and that so very few are...the danger is not great; and I have learned, from loug experience, never to apprehend mischief from those understandings, I have been able to provoke...
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Swiftiana ...

Charles Henry Wilson - Authors, Irish - 1804 - 250 pages
...sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover every body's face but their own; which is their chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offendedwith it. CXLI. SWfFTIANJU 143 CXLI. ANGRY PERSONS" I have learnt from long experience," says...
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Liber facetiarum, being a collection of curious and interesting anecdotes

Liber - Anecdotes - 1809 - 372 pages
...of glasss, wherein beholders do generally discover every body's face but their own ; which is their chief reason for that kind reception it meets with...world, and that so very few are offended with it. Swift tana, v, l,p. 142. THE remarks of Fuller, in his Worthies of England, relative to Spenser, Jonson,...
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The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His ..., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 342 pages
...•aid poet : and so of the rest. THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. SATIRE is a sort of glass wherein beholden do generally discover every body's face but their...the chief reason for that kind reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But if it should happen otherwise, the danger...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...every body's face but their own; — which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. — Swift. LV. A man's genius is always, in the beginning of life, as much unknown to himself as to...
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