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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 of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. "
Gale Middleton. By the author of 'Brambletye house'. - Page 147
by Horace Smith - 1833
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A tale of a tub. The battle of the books [and essays

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...discover every body'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. But if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned, from long experience,...
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The Works, Volume 3

Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...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 offended with -it. But if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned, from loug experience,...
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Liber facetiarum, being a collection of curious and interesting anecdotes

Liber - Anecdotes - 1809 - 372 pages
...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 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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A Tale of a Tub,: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which ...

Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1811 - 390 pages
...discover every body'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. But if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned, from long experience,...
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A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which ...

Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - English literature - 1812 - 250 pages
...discover every body'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. But if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great ; and I have learned, from long experience,...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. Polite ...

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 pages
...discover every body'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. But if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great ; and I have learned, from long experience,...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. Polite ...

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 442 pages
...discover every body'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. But if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great ; and I have learned, from long experience,...
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Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. Polite conversation

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 446 pages
...discover every body'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. But if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great ; and I have learned, from long experience,...
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The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His ..., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 342 pages
...beholden do generally discover every body's face but their own ; which is 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 is not great ; and I have learned from long experience,...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...generally discover 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 others; and...
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