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" An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would... "
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and ... - Page 179
by Jonathan Swift - 1812
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...they are to discourse on.. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease HS well as health of the subject, If the women, in conjunction...raise a rebellion, unless they might be allowed the lil>erty to speak with their tongues, after the manner of their forefather* ; such constant irreconcilable...
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Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift - 1882 - 76 pages
...particular benefits they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things, which hath only this inconvenience attending it, that...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and ...

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 466 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on." And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease, as well as health of the subject,...However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things, which has only this inconvenience attending it, that,...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters ..., Volume 11

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on." And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease, as well as health of the subject,...However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things, which has only this inconvenience attending it, that,...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on." And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things, which has only this inconvenience attending it, that...
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Selections from the prose writings of Jonathan Swift, with preface and notes ...

Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on." And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things, which has only this inconvenience attending it, that...
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The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the ..., Volume 3

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 458 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things ; which has only this inconvenience attending it, that...
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The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the ..., Volume 3

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 460 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things ; which has only this inconvenience attending it, that...
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TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD

W. C. TAYLOR - 1890 - 890 pages
...discourse on.': And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as fiealth of the subject, if the women, in conjunction with...However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things ; 224 which has only this inconvenience attending it,...
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Cathcart's Literary Reader: A Manual of English Literature : Being Typical ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if...irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people. THE common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity...
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