The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen Volumes. ...John Donadlson [sic], London, 1774 |
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... fent , if I had leisure or liberty to lay it before you ; and , therefore , the next thing which might be con-- fidered is , Whether there may be any probable remedy found , at the leaft againft fome part of thefe evils ; for most of ...
... fent , if I had leisure or liberty to lay it before you ; and , therefore , the next thing which might be con-- fidered is , Whether there may be any probable remedy found , at the leaft againft fome part of thefe evils ; for most of ...
Page 40
... fent out of mere contempt of religion . And , laft- ly , there are not a few who look upon it as a day of reft , and therefore claim the privilege of their caftle , to keep the Sabbath by eating , drinking , and fleeping , after the ...
... fent out of mere contempt of religion . And , laft- ly , there are not a few who look upon it as a day of reft , and therefore claim the privilege of their caftle , to keep the Sabbath by eating , drinking , and fleeping , after the ...
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... fent to what others chufe , and fo people often do . Page xiv . paragraph 6. The clergy are not fuppo fed to have any divine legislature , because that must be fuperiour to all worldly power ; and then the clergy might as well forbid ...
... fent to what others chufe , and fo people often do . Page xiv . paragraph 6. The clergy are not fuppo fed to have any divine legislature , because that must be fuperiour to all worldly power ; and then the clergy might as well forbid ...
Page 73
... fent to the gal- lows , more terrible to him than the devil , for his contempt of the law , & c . Therefore he need not complain of being fent to hell . Page lxiv . Mr. Lefly may carry things too far , as it is natural , becaufe the ...
... fent to the gal- lows , more terrible to him than the devil , for his contempt of the law , & c . Therefore he need not complain of being fent to hell . Page lxiv . Mr. Lefly may carry things too far , as it is natural , becaufe the ...
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... fent establishment , oblige me to take fome notice of an affair , which I apprehend to be of very great importance to both . It will be neceffary , in the firft place , to give the reader a fhort account of the nature of thefe troops ...
... fent establishment , oblige me to take fome notice of an affair , which I apprehend to be of very great importance to both . It will be neceffary , in the firft place , to give the reader a fhort account of the nature of thefe troops ...
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Page 209 - I conceive their refinements were grounded upon reason, and that a little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious, and low.
Page 19 - from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor " riches, feed me with food convenient for me : left I be " full, and deny thee, and fay, Who is the Lord ? or left " I be poor, and fteal, and take the name of my God in " vain," On the fame thing is founded the advice of Solomon, with regard to the fin of fenfuality : Proverbs xxiii.
Page 205 - And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid : nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves.
Page 38 - And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep : and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Page 359 - The great question^ whether the number of men in Spain and Portugal, at the time of the battle of Almanza, was but 8600, when there ought to have been 29,600, was carried on Tuesday in the affirmative, against the court, without a division, which was occasioned by Sir Thomas Hanmer's oratory.
Page 206 - ... ready to lapse into barbarity. This, among the Romans, was the raillery of slaves, of which we have many instances in Plautus. It seems to have been introduced among us by Cromwell,* who, by preferring the scum of the people, made it a court entertainment...
Page 214 - He seems to be but an ill dissembler, and an ill liar, although they are the two talents he most practises, and most values himself upon. The ends he has gained by lying, appear to be more owing to the frequency, than the art of them : his lies being sometimes detected in an hour, often in a day, and always in a week.
Page 169 - London, never failed to draw after him a great crowd of boys, and other young people, who constantly attended at his lodgings, and followed him with huzzas, as he went to court, or returned from it. As he was a man of humour, he would always thank them for their civilities, when he left them at the door, to go in to the king ; and would let them know exactly at what hour he intended to come out again, and return to his lodgings.
Page 202 - Of such mighty importance every man is to himself, and ready to think he is so to others; without once making this easy and obvious reflection, that his affairs can have no more weight with other men, than theirs have with him; and how little that is, he is sensible enough.
Page 202 - ... just as they happened; but he would have his own way. Others make a vanity of telling their faults; they are the strangest men in the world; they cannot dissemble; they own it is a folly; they have lost abundance of advantages by it; but if you would give them the world...