The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen 5J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
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... wise a man as Epicurus ; the corrupt part of his sect only borrowed his name , as the monkey did the cat's claw , to draw the chesnut out of the fire . However , the first step to the cure , is to know the disease ; and though truth may ...
... wise a man as Epicurus ; the corrupt part of his sect only borrowed his name , as the monkey did the cat's claw , to draw the chesnut out of the fire . However , the first step to the cure , is to know the disease ; and though truth may ...
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... wise sages , which would be a sort of ingratitude ; and he that calls a man ungrateful , sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of , Ingratum si dixeris , omnia dicis . But , what I blame the philosophers for , ( though some may ...
... wise sages , which would be a sort of ingratitude ; and he that calls a man ungrateful , sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of , Ingratum si dixeris , omnia dicis . But , what I blame the philosophers for , ( though some may ...
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... wise man is never less alone , than when he is alone : Nunquam minus solus , quam cùm solus . And Archimedes , the famous mathematician , was so intent upon his problems , that he never minded the soldiers who came to kill him ...
... wise man is never less alone , than when he is alone : Nunquam minus solus , quam cùm solus . And Archimedes , the famous mathematician , was so intent upon his problems , that he never minded the soldiers who came to kill him ...
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... wise men with the utmost scorn and contempt ; but I rather wonder , when I observe gentlemen in the country , rich enough to serve the nation in parliament , poring in Partridge's almanack , to find out the events of the year , at home ...
... wise men with the utmost scorn and contempt ; but I rather wonder , when I observe gentlemen in the country , rich enough to serve the nation in parliament , poring in Partridge's almanack , to find out the events of the year , at home ...
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... wise to wander in generals , and talk dubiously , and leave to the reader the business of interpreting . On the first of this month a French General will be killed by a random shot of a cannon - ball . * About this time there were some ...
... wise to wander in generals , and talk dubiously , and leave to the reader the business of interpreting . On the first of this month a French General will be killed by a random shot of a cannon - ball . * About this time there were some ...
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Página 298 - will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their " anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was ' cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter " them in Israel.
Página 63 - off in many years after. To this succeeded that licentiousness which entered with the restoration, and from infecting our religion and morals, fell to corrupt our language ; which last was not likely to be much improved by those, who at the time made up the court of king Charles the
Página 443 - miserable ; for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Ill company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best. Censure, is the tax a man pays to the
Página 194 - for his Tatlers, about an Indian supposed to write " his Travels into England. I repent he ever had it. I intended " to have written a book on that subject. I believe he has spent " it all in one paper ; and all the under hints there arc mine
Página 195 - by the best information that I could " get of this matter, I am apt to think that this " prodigious pile was fashioned into the shape it " now bears by several tools and instruments, of " which they have a wonderful variety in this " country. It was probably at first a huge
Página 198 - feats of ingenuity performed by others, who it seems were paid for it. " As for the women of the country, not being able to talk with them, we could only make our remarks upon them at a distance. They let the hair of their heads grow to a great length ; but as the men make a great show
Página 227 - There are some people who think they sufficiently acquit themselves, and entertain their company, with relating facts of no consequence, nor at all out of the road of such common incidents as happen every day ; and this I have observed more frequently among the Scots than any other nation, who arc very careful not to omit the minutest circumstances of
Página 189 - tho' he understands play -very -well, nobody better. He has promis't me upon rep to leave off" play ; but you know 'tis a weakness he's too apt to give into, tho' he has as much -wit as any man, nobody more : he has lain incog ever since.—The mobb's very quiet with us now.—I believe you tho't
Página 188 - whom books are not translated,, but (as the common expressions are) done out of French, Latin, or other languages, and made English. I cannot but observe to you, that, until of late years, a Grub street book was always bound in sheepskin, with suitable print and paper, the price never above a shilling, and taken
Página 339 - those which would be brought about as well in the ordinary forms, or would follow of course whether he intervened or not. He bears the gallantries of his lady with the indifference of a stoick, and thinks them well recompensed, by a return of children to support his family, without the fatigues of being a father.