The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
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... those travellers who fwerve from the truth . The author clears himself from any finifter ends in writing . An objection answered . The method of planting colonies . His native country commended . The right of the crown to those ...
... those travellers who fwerve from the truth . The author clears himself from any finifter ends in writing . An objection answered . The method of planting colonies . His native country commended . The right of the crown to those ...
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... those the ra- tional creatures ; and indeed to avoid fo monftrous and deteftable a fight was one principal motive of my retire- ment hither . THUS much I thought proper to tell you in relation to yourself , and to the truft I repofed in ...
... those the ra- tional creatures ; and indeed to avoid fo monftrous and deteftable a fight was one principal motive of my retire- ment hither . THUS much I thought proper to tell you in relation to yourself , and to the truft I repofed in ...
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... those two degenerate Houyhnhnms I keep in my stable ; because from thefe , degenerate as they are , I ftill im- prove in fome virtues without any mixture of vice . Do thefe miferable animals prefume to think , that I am fo degenerated ...
... those two degenerate Houyhnhnms I keep in my stable ; because from thefe , degenerate as they are , I ftill im- prove in fome virtues without any mixture of vice . Do thefe miferable animals prefume to think , that I am fo degenerated ...
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... those who intend to travel , as I always belie- ved it would be fome time or other my fortune to do . When I left Mr Bates , I went down to my father ; where , by the affiftance of him and my uncle John , and fome other while they ...
... those who intend to travel , as I always belie- ved it would be fome time or other my fortune to do . When I left Mr Bates , I went down to my father ; where , by the affiftance of him and my uncle John , and fome other while they ...
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... and our voyage at first was very profperous . Ir would not be proper , for fome reafons , to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those feas feas . Let it fuffice to inform him , that 12 Part . I. A VOYAGE.
... and our voyage at first was very profperous . Ir would not be proper , for fome reafons , to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those feas feas . Let it fuffice to inform him , that 12 Part . I. A VOYAGE.
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Página 170 - The professor then desired me to observe, for he was going to set his engine at work. The pupils at his command took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded...
Página 126 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 13 - Fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom ; but when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth, and by this time the storm was much abated.
Página 210 - In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end...
Página 380 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 172 - However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things, which hath only this inconvenience attending it, that if a man's business be very great and of various kinds, he must be obliged in proportion to carry a greater bundle of things upon his back, unless he can afford one or two strong servants to attend him.
Página 170 - The first professor I saw was in a very large room, with forty pupils about him. After salutation, observing me to look earnestly upon a frame which took up the greatest part of both the length and breadth of the room, he said, perhaps I might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge by practical and mechanical operations.
Página 166 - Every room hath in it one or more projectors, and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms.
Página 291 - ... king, they set up a rotten plank or a stone for a memorial, they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more by force for a sample, return home, and get their pardon. Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.
Página 172 - The other project was a scheme for entirely abolishing all/ words whatsoever; and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health as well as brevity. For it is plain that every word we speak is in some degree a diminution of our lungs by corrosion, and consequently contributes to the shortening of our lives.