The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, Volumen 4J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... corruption , is at last grown necessary , and what every good subject must now fall in with , although he may be allowed to wish it might soon have an end ; because it is with a kingdom , as with a private fortune , where every new in ...
... corruption , is at last grown necessary , and what every good subject must now fall in with , although he may be allowed to wish it might soon have an end ; because it is with a kingdom , as with a private fortune , where every new in ...
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... 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 means of per- petual ...
... 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 means of per- petual ...
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... corruption , ignorance , or in- justice . Barely to relate the facts , at least while they are fresh in memory , will as much reflect upon the persons concerned , as if we had told their names at length . I have therefore since thought ...
... corruption , ignorance , or in- justice . Barely to relate the facts , at least while they are fresh in memory , will as much reflect upon the persons concerned , as if we had told their names at length . I have therefore since thought ...
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... corrupt . Take that support from him , and he can have no other left : for what eloquence will be able to defend a man , whose life has been tainted with so many scandalous vices , and who has been so long condemned by the universal ...
... corrupt . Take that support from him , and he can have no other left : for what eloquence will be able to defend a man , whose life has been tainted with so many scandalous vices , and who has been so long condemned by the universal ...
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... corruption and degeneracy of our taste ; but I think the writer has omitted the principal one , which I take to be the prejudice of parties . Neither can I excuse either side of this infirmity : I have heard the arrantest drivellers pro ...
... corruption and degeneracy of our taste ; but I think the writer has omitted the principal one , which I take to be the prejudice of parties . Neither can I excuse either side of this infirmity : I have heard the arrantest drivellers pro ...
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Página 301 - 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 474 - ... 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 17 - Let any Man observe the Equipages in this Town; he shall find the greater Number of those who make a Figure, to be a Species of Men quite different from any that were ever known before the Revolution; consisting either of Generals and Colonels, or of such whose whole Fortunes lie in Funds and Stocks: So that Power, which, according to the old Maxim, was used to follow Land, is now gone over to Money...
Página 516 - Medleys are jumbled together with the Flying Post ; the Examiner is deadly sick ; the Spectator keeps up, and doubles its price ; I know not how long it will hold. Have you seen the red stamp the papers are marked with ? Methinks it is worth a halfpenny, the stamping it.
Página 196 - drawn upon him the hatred of all the abettors of Popery and faction.
Página 471 - ... 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 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 482 - I say, that I would have our Language, after it is duly correct, always to last; I do not mean that it should never be enlarged: Provided, that no Word which a Society shall give a Sanction to, be afterwards antiquated and exploded, they may have liberty to receive whatever new ones they shall find occasion for...
Página 489 - 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...
Página 470 - Conqueror proceeded much further, bringing over with him vast numbers of that nation, scattering them in every monastery, giving them great quantities of land, directing all pleadings to be in that language, and endeavouring to make it universal in the kingdom.