 This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth or liberal education. When a great office is vacant,...  Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot - Page 88by John Arbuthnot - 1770Full view - About this book
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...with the reader's patience, to enlarge a little. This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high...always of noble birth, or liberal education. When u great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...liberty, with the reader's patience, to enlarge a little. This diversion is omy practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high...When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain hii*... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 pages
...liberty, with the reader's patience, to enlarge a Httle. Tbis diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favour at court. They are trained in this art frum their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education. When a great office is vacant,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...liberty, with the reader's patience, to enlarge a. Rule. This diversion Is onjy practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high...liberal education. When a great office is vacant, cither by death or disgrace (which often happen?), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1882 - 76 pages
...enlarge a little. Rope-dancers in Lilliput. This diversion is only practised by those persons who arc candidates for great employments and high favour at...When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the Emperor to entertain his... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 pages
...with the reader's patience, to enlarge a little. This diversion is only practised by those persons, who are candidates for great employments, and high...When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace, (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 128 pages
...with the reader's patience, to enlarge a little. This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high...When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 466 pages
...with the reader's patience, to enlarge a little. This diversion is only practised by those persons, who are candidates for great employments, and high...When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace, (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1886 - 64 pages
...who are candidates for great employments and high favor at court. They are trained in this art fiwn their youth, and are not always of noble birth or...When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1887 - 296 pages
...diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favor at court. They are trained in this art from their...When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his... | |
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