The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, Volumen 4J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... trading people , as we call ourselves , there should so many be found to close in with those counsels , who have been ever averse from all overtures towards a peace : but yet there is no great mystery in the matter . Let any man observe ...
... trading people , as we call ourselves , there should so many be found to close in with those counsels , who have been ever averse from all overtures towards a peace : but yet there is no great mystery in the matter . Let any man observe ...
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... trade was dangerous , pursued the same method . But the war continuing , and growing more expensive , taxes were increased , and funds multiplied every year , till they have arrived at the monstrous height we now behold them ; and that ...
... trade was dangerous , pursued the same method . But the war continuing , and growing more expensive , taxes were increased , and funds multiplied every year , till they have arrived at the monstrous height we now behold them ; and that ...
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... trade , their wonderful parsimony , the willingness of their people to undergo all kind of taxes , and their justice in applying , as well as collecting them . But above all we are to consider , that France and Holland fight on the ...
... trade , their wonderful parsimony , the willingness of their people to undergo all kind of taxes , and their justice in applying , as well as collecting them . But above all we are to consider , that France and Holland fight on the ...
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... trade , I shall han- dle it in as cautious a manner as I am able . It is certain , that the art of war has suffered great changes almost in every age and country of the world however , there are some maxims re- lating to it , that will ...
... trade , I shall han- dle it in as cautious a manner as I am able . It is certain , that the art of war has suffered great changes almost in every age and country of the world however , there are some maxims re- lating to it , that will ...
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... trade , and keeping armies in pay , seems in Europe to have had two originals : the first was usurpation ; when popular men de- stroyed the liberties of their country , and seized the power into their own hands , which they were forced ...
... trade , and keeping armies in pay , seems in Europe to have had two originals : the first was usurpation ; when popular men de- stroyed the liberties of their country , and seized the power into their own hands , which they were forced ...
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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.