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" Banbury near a hundred years ago, tells us, it was a place famous for cakes and zeal, which I find by my glass is true to this day, as to the latter part of this description ; though I must confess, it is not in the same reputation for cakes that it was... "
The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen ... - Page 68
by Jonathan Swift - 1774
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The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 4

1728 - 340 pages
...Part of this Defcriptibn ; though I muft confefs, it is not in the fame Reputation forCakwrtat itwas in the Time of that learned Author ; and thus of other Places. Infhort, I have now by me, digcftedfo an Alphabetical Order, all the Counties, Corporations and Boroughs,...
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The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 4

Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1754 - 360 pages
...latter Part of this Defcription ; though I mult confcfs, it is not in the fame Reputation for Cakei that it was in the Time of that learned Author; and thus of othrr Places. In fliort, I have now by me, digefted in an Alphabetical Order, all the Counties, Corporations...
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The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...

Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 470 pages
...which I find by my glafs is true to this day, as to the latter part of his defcription i, tho' I mnft confefs, it is not in the fame reputation for cakes...that learned author ; and thus of other places. In fliort, I have now by me, digcfted in an alphabetical order, all the Counties, corporations, and boroughs...
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The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc ..., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - English literature - 1761 - 468 pages
...which I find by my glafs is true to this day, as to the latter part of his defcription ; though I muft confefs, it is not in the fame reputation for cakes...corporations, and boroughs in Great Britain, with their refpeftive tempers, as they ftand related in my thermometer. But this I mall keep to myfelf, becaufe...
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The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 4

Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - English essays - 1774 - 366 pages
...which I find by my glafs is true to this day as to the latter part of this defcription ; though I muft confefs, it is not in the fame reputation for cakes...that learned Author ; and thus of other places In fliort, I have now by me digefted in an alphabetical order, all the •counties, corporations, and...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ..., Volume 2

Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - 498 pages
...find, by my glafs, is true, to this day, as to the latter part of his defcription ; though, I muft confefs, it is not in the fame reputation for cakes,...order, all the counties, corporations, and boroughs, in Great-Britain, with their refpective tempers, as they ftand related in my thermometer. But this 1 fhall...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 3

1785 - 698 pages
...which I find by myglafs is true to this day as to the latter part oí this defcriplion; though, 1 mull confefs, it is not in the fame reputation for cakes that it was in the time of that le:uned author} and thus of other places. In fhort, £ have now by me, digellcd in аи alphabetical...
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The British Essayists: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 638 pages
...to this day as to the latter part of this description ; though I must confess, it is not in the same reputation for cakes that it was in the time of that learned author; and thus of other places. In short, I have now by me, digested in an alphabetical order, all the counties, 'corporations, and boroughs...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 5

British essayists - 1803 - 306 pages
...to this day as to the latter part of this description ; though I must confess, it is not in the same reputation for cakes that it was in the time of that learned author; and thus of other places. In short, I have now by me, digested in an alphabetical order, all the counties, corporations, and boroughs...
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1804 - 676 pages
...to this day as to the latter part of this deseription ; though I must confess it is not in the same reputation for cakes that it was in the time of that learned author : and thus of other places. In short, I have now by me, digested in an alphabetical order, all the counties, corporations, and boroughs,...
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