The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Volumen 91814 |
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... writing , there never was a prece- dent of such a proceeding ; much less was it to be feared , hoped , or apprehended , from such hands in any Christian country ; and so it may pass for more than a phoenix ; because it has risen without ...
... writing , there never was a prece- dent of such a proceeding ; much less was it to be feared , hoped , or apprehended , from such hands in any Christian country ; and so it may pass for more than a phoenix ; because it has risen without ...
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... writing this letter , absolutely ruined him with the late ministry . I have taken leave to omit about a page , which was purely personal , and of no use to the subject . " The pamphlet may be considered as having materially contri- buted.
... writing this letter , absolutely ruined him with the late ministry . I have taken leave to omit about a page , which was purely personal , and of no use to the subject . " The pamphlet may be considered as having materially contri- buted.
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... writer in his proper figure and dress ; and , therefore , however I may take him to be a feeble advocate for the repeal of the test , in point of reasoning , yet I freely allow him to be a most resolute champion in point of cou- rage ...
... writer in his proper figure and dress ; and , therefore , however I may take him to be a feeble advocate for the repeal of the test , in point of reasoning , yet I freely allow him to be a most resolute champion in point of cou- rage ...
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... writers are so universally agreed in the negative , as well as their practice during Oliver's reign , that I believe no reasonable churchman ( who must then be dissen- ter ) will expect it . I shall here take notice , that in the ...
... writers are so universally agreed in the negative , as well as their practice during Oliver's reign , that I believe no reasonable churchman ( who must then be dissen- ter ) will expect it . I shall here take notice , that in the ...
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... writer : but it is a gross imposition upon common reason , to terrify us with their strength . For popery , under the circumstances it lies in this kingdom , although it be offensive and inconvenient enough from the consequences it has ...
... writer : but it is a gross imposition upon common reason , to terrify us with their strength . For popery , under the circumstances it lies in this kingdom , although it be offensive and inconvenient enough from the consequences it has ...
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Página 441 - Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves ; in women, from the contrary.
Página 491 - ... graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. . . . Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation.
Página 156 - I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever: therefore I advise him to consider of it, and settle his affairs in time.
Página 329 - This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest: it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs: but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk...
Página 436 - The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable ; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Página 243 - THE following letter has laid before me many great and manifest evils in the world of letters, which I had overlooked ; but they open to me a very busy scene, and it will require no small care and application to amend errors which are become so universal. The affectation of politeness is exposed in this epistle with a great deal of wit and discernment; so that whatever discourses I may fall into hereafter upon the subjects the writer treats of, I shall at present lay the matter before the world,...
Página 441 - Kings are commonly said to have long hands; I wish they had as long ears. Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth, are said to discover prodigious parts and wit, to speak things that surprise and astonish: strange, so many hopeful princes, and so many shameful kings! If they happen to die young, they would have been prodigies of wisdom and virtue: if they live, they are often prodigies indeed, but of another sort.
Página 107 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill 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 329 - Surely mortal man is a broomstick ! nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning •vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...
Página 283 - 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...