A Supplement to Dr. Swift's Works: Containing Miscellanies in Prose and Verse,J. Nichols: sold, 1765 - 428 páginas |
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... reafon , feems well to agree with the fentiment of legiflators , and to have been followed in most states , whether they have appeared under the name of monar- chies , ariftocracies , or democracies : for not to mention the feveral ...
... reafon , feems well to agree with the fentiment of legiflators , and to have been followed in most states , whether they have appeared under the name of monar- chies , ariftocracies , or democracies : for not to mention the feveral ...
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... reafon of his wounds , fined 30,000 crowns , and died in prifon . Though the confequences of this proceeding upon the affairs of Athens were no other than the un- timely lofs of fo great and good a man , yet I could not forbear relating ...
... reafon of his wounds , fined 30,000 crowns , and died in prifon . Though the confequences of this proceeding upon the affairs of Athens were no other than the un- timely lofs of fo great and good a man , yet I could not forbear relating ...
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... reafon upon fhort views , and a very mode- rate compafs of thought . For I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a na- tion , as a standing argument in all ages , fince there is hardly a fpot of ground in Europe , where the ...
... reafon upon fhort views , and a very mode- rate compafs of thought . For I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a na- tion , as a standing argument in all ages , fince there is hardly a fpot of ground in Europe , where the ...
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... reafon and understanding ; I do allow that abundance of indigested and abortive , many pernicious and foolish overtures would arife , and float a few minutes ; but then they would die and difap- pear . Because this must be faid in ...
... reafon and understanding ; I do allow that abundance of indigested and abortive , many pernicious and foolish overtures would arife , and float a few minutes ; but then they would die and difap- pear . Because this must be faid in ...
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... reafon , to be en- gaged in any party , the most plausible foever , upon fuch fervile conditions . This influence of one upon many , which feems to be as great in a people represented , as it was of old in the commons collective , to ...
... reafon , to be en- gaged in any party , the most plausible foever , upon fuch fervile conditions . This influence of one upon many , which feems to be as great in a people represented , as it was of old in the commons collective , to ...
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Página 248 - My lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation, complain to your lordship, as first minister, that our language is extremely imperfect; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Página 243 - ... now handled by every dirty wench, condemned to do her drudgery, and, by a capricious kind of fate, destined to make other things clean, and be nasty itself; at length, worn to the stumps in the...
Página 255 - ... beside the obvious inconvenience of utterly destroying our etymology, would be a thing we should never see an end of. Not only the several towns and counties of England have a different way of pronouncing, but even here in London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third -in the suburbs : and in a few years, it is probable, will all differ from themselves, as fancy or fashion shall direct : all which reduced to writing would entirely confound orthography.
Página 117 - It is likewise urged that there are, by computation, in this kingdom above ten thousand parsons, whose revenues added to those of my lords the bishops would suffice to maintain at least two hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure and free-thinking, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices; who might be an ornament to the Court and Town. And then again, so great a number of able [bodied] divines might be a recruit to our fleet and armies.
Página 247 - ... of which is to be your own work, as much as that of paying the nation's debts...
Página 118 - But still there is in this project a greater mischief behind; and we ought to beware of the woman's folly, who killed the hen, that every morning laid her a golden egg. For, pray what would become of the race of men in the next age, if we had nothing to trust to beside the scrofulous consumptive productions, furnished by our men of wit and pleasure...
Página 258 - Now, though I would by no means give ladies the trouble of advising us in the reformation of our language, yet I cannot help thinking that, since they have been left out of all meetings, except parties at play, or where worse designs are carried on, our conversation has very much degenerated.
Página 153 - Besides, hypocrisy is much more eligible than open infidelity and vice; it wears the livery of religion; it acknowledges her authority, and is cautious of giving scandal.
Página 312 - Law in a free country is, or ought to be, the determination of the majority of those who have property in land.
Página 157 - I have confined myself (as it is before observed) to those methods for the advancement of piety which are in the power of a prince, limited like ours, by a strict execution of the laws already in force.