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" NOT to trouble you at present with a recital of all my obligations to you, I shall only mention two things, which I take particularly kind of you : your desire that I should write to you, and your proposal of giving me twenty guineas to change my religion... "
The Orrery Papers - Page 26
edited by - 1903
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The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...

Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 486 pages
...I (hall only mention two things, which I take particularly kind of you : your defire that I fhould write to you ; and your proposal of giving me twenty guineas to change my religion ; which laft you muft give me leave to make the fubjed of this letter. SURE, no clergyman ever offered fo much...
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The Works, Volume 16

Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 318 pages
...recital of all my obligations to you, I shall only mention two things, which I take particularly kind of you : your desire that I should write to you, and...out of his own purse for the sake of any religion. It is almost as rfiany pieces of gold, as an Apostle could get of silver, from the priests of old,...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 10

Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 490 pages
...recital ot' all my obligations to you, I shall only mention two things, which I take particularly kind of you : your desire that I should write to you, and...religion; which last you must give me leave to make ihe subject of this letter. Sure. TIO clergyman ever offered so much out of his own purse for the sake...
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Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...recital of all my obligations to you, I shall only mention two things, which 1 take particularly kind of you : your desire that I should write to you, and your proposal * This is the opening of the correspondence between these celebrated men, which began in favours on...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 10

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 596 pages
...Pope, and ended in the most strict friendship on mention two things, which I take particularly kind of you : your desire that I should write to you, and...out of his own purse for the sake of any religion. It is almost as many pieces of gold as an Apostle could get of silver, from the priests of old, on...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 10

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 628 pages
...recital of all my obligations to you, I shall only mention two things, which I take particularly kind of you: your desire that I should write to you, and...out of his own purse for the sake of any religion. It is almost as many pieces of gold as an Apostle could get of silver, from the priests of old, on...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 10

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 602 pages
...Pope, and ended in the most strict friendship on mention two things, which I take particularly kind of you : your desire that I should write to you, and...out of his own purse for the sake of any religion. It is almost as many pieces of gold as an Apostle could get of silver, from the priests of old, on...
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The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters ..., Volume 16

Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 510 pages
...proposal to change his religion was calculated to meet Rennet's sagacious inuendo upon that subject. I should write to you, and your proposal of giving...out of his own purse for the sake of any religion. It is almost as many pieces of gold as an Apostle could get of silver, from the priests of old, on...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 22

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1828 - 606 pages
...joined. Dean Swift offered Pope twenty guineas to change his religion ; to which Pope replied, " Surely no clergyman ever offered so much out of his own purse for the sake of any religion." On this principle, it is orthodox to doubt Father Macguire's story of the 1000/. and 800/. per annum....
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The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 8

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 pages
...recital of all my obligations to you, I shall only mention two things, which I take particularly kind of you : your desire that I should write to you, and...give me leave to make the subject of this letter. 4 This is the opening of the correspondence between these celebrated men, which began in favours on...
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