The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, Volumen 4J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... Principles and Projects of a late whimsical Book , intitled The Rights of the Christian Church , & c . are fairly stated , and answered in their kind , & c . By a Layman , 1709 , 1710 , " 3 vols . 8vo . 2. " A Vindication of the Bishop ...
... Principles and Projects of a late whimsical Book , intitled The Rights of the Christian Church , & c . are fairly stated , and answered in their kind , & c . By a Layman , 1709 , 1710 , " 3 vols . 8vo . 2. " A Vindication of the Bishop ...
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... principles of loyalty in the church of England were wholly in- consistent with the Revolution . Hence began the early practice of caressing the dissenters , re- viling the universities , as maintainers of arbitrary power , and ...
... principles of loyalty in the church of England were wholly in- consistent with the Revolution . Hence began the early practice of caressing the dissenters , re- viling the universities , as maintainers of arbitrary power , and ...
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... principle and interest it was , to corrupt our man- ners , blind our understanding , drain our wealth , and in time destroy our constitution both in church and state ; and we at last were brought to the very brink of ruin ; yet by the ...
... principle and interest it was , to corrupt our man- ners , blind our understanding , drain our wealth , and in time destroy our constitution both in church and state ; and we at last were brought to the very brink of ruin ; yet by the ...
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... principles , and pensioners to France ; while truth , who is said to lie in a well , seemed now to be buried there under a heap of stones . But I remember , it was a usual complaint among the whigs , that the bulk of the landed men was ...
... principles , and pensioners to France ; while truth , who is said to lie in a well , seemed now to be buried there under a heap of stones . But I remember , it was a usual complaint among the whigs , that the bulk of the landed men was ...
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... principles as far as east from west , but , united in practice , and falling together , they are now reconciled , and find twenty resemblances between each other , which they could never dis- cover before . Tanti est , ut placcam tibi ...
... principles as far as east from west , but , united in practice , and falling together , they are now reconciled , and find twenty resemblances between each other , which they could never dis- cover before . Tanti est , ut placcam tibi ...
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Página 467 - ... or encouragement for popular orators ; their giving not only the freedom of the city, but capacity for employments, to several towns in Gaul, Spain, and Germany...
Página 25 - There is one essential point wherein a political liar differs from others of the faculty, that he ought to have but a short memory, which is necessary according to the various occasions he meets with every hour of differing from himself and swearing to both sides of a contradiction, as he finds the persons disposed with whom he has to deal.
Página 95 - Faith to be agreed upon as aforesaid; and such who profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, God co-equal with the Father and the Son, one God blessed for ever, and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the revealed Will and Word of God...
Página 83 - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Página 469 - From the civil war to this present time, I am apt to doubt, whether the corruptions in our language have not at least equalled the refinements of it ; and these corruptions very few of the best authors in our age have wholly escaped.
Página 470 - ... which used to be the standard of propriety and correctness of speech, was then, and, I think, has ever since continued, the worst school in England for that accomplishment; and .so will remain till better care be taken in the education of our young nobility, that they may set out into the world with some foundation of literature, in order to qualify them for patterns of politeness.
Página 297 - Majesty the several rates and duties hereinafter mentioned; and do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal...
Página 463 - They all agreed, that nothing would be of greater use towards the improvement of knowledge and politeness than some effectual method for correcting, enlarging, and ascertaining our language ; and they think it a work very possible to be compassed under the protection of a prince, the countenance and encouragement of a ministry, and the care of proper persons chosen for such an undertaking.
Página 85 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Página 485 - Tongue," in a Letter to the Earl of Oxford ; written without much knowledge of the general nature of language, and without any accurate inquiry into the history of other tongues. The certainty and stability which, contrary to all experience, he thinks attainable, he proposes to secure by instituting an academy ; the decrees of which every man would have been willing, and many would have been proud, to disobey, and which, being renewed by successive elections, would in a short time have differed from...