The Works of the Rev Jonathan Swift, D D , Dean of St Patrick's, DublinCambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 - 134 páginas Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DOCTOR SWIFT, WRITTEN By THOMAS SHERIDAN, Esq. DETUR DIGNISSIMO. I Here present the world with the Life of Dr. Swift: a man, whose original genius, and uncommon talents, have raised him, in the general estimation, above all the writers of the age. But, from causes to be hereafter explained, his character as a man, has hitherto been very problematical; nor ihall I find it easy, notwithstanding the most convincing proofs, to persuade mankind, that one who flourished in the beginning of this century, in times . of great corruption, should afford in himself a rat- tern of such perfect virtue, as was rarely to be found in the annals of the ancient republick of Rome, when virtue was the mode. Yet if it can be shown that even at this day, when corruption seems to lave arrived at its utmost pitch, when prostitution is openly avowed, and publick spirit turned into a jestj if in such times as these in Jicce Romull, there lives a man fully equal to Swift in all the moral virtues attributed to him; the improbability of the existence of such' a character a.t a former period, will be much lessened. In the following history Swift has been represented as a man of the most, disinterested principles, regardless of self, and constantly employed in doing good to others. In acts of charity and liberality, in proportion to his means, perhaps without an equal, in his days. A warm champion in the cause of liberty, and support of the English constitution. A firm patriot, in withstanding all attempts against his country, either by oppression, or corruption; and indefatigable in pointing out, and encouraging the means to render her state more flourishing. Of incorruptible integrity, inviolable truth, and steadiness in friendship. Utterly free from vice, and living in the constant dis... |
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