The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essaysA. Constable, 1814 |
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... friends , indus- try , solicitation , or other means and merits to me unknown , have been raised to that character by the mero motu of the crown . Of the other sort , are some clergymen born in this kingdom , who have most distinguished ...
... friends , indus- try , solicitation , or other means and merits to me unknown , have been raised to that character by the mero motu of the crown . Of the other sort , are some clergymen born in this kingdom , who have most distinguished ...
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... friends , and possibly as reasonable expect- ants . There is a known story of colonel Tidcomb , who , while he ... friend on the Mall , he confessed that the spirit of colonelship was coming fast upon him : which spirit is said to have ...
... friends , and possibly as reasonable expect- ants . There is a known story of colonel Tidcomb , who , while he ... friend on the Mall , he confessed that the spirit of colonelship was coming fast upon him : which spirit is said to have ...
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... friends can- not hitherto reconcile themselves to this project ; which they call a levelling principle , that must in- evitably root out the seeds of all honest emula- tion , the legal parent of the greatest virtue and most generous ...
... friends can- not hitherto reconcile themselves to this project ; which they call a levelling principle , that must in- evitably root out the seeds of all honest emula- tion , the legal parent of the greatest virtue and most generous ...
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... friend kicked down after him . I have heard many more objections against se- veral particulars of both these bills ; but they are of a high nature , and carry such dreadful inuen- does , that I dare not mention them ; resolving to give ...
... friend kicked down after him . I have heard many more objections against se- veral particulars of both these bills ; but they are of a high nature , and carry such dreadful inuen- does , that I dare not mention them ; resolving to give ...
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... friend , and not as I am , a member of parliament , I must assure you they are exactly the same in both capacities . I must begin by telling you , we are generally surprised at your wonderful kindness to us on this occasion , it being ...
... friend , and not as I am , a member of parliament , I must assure you they are exactly the same in both capacities . I must begin by telling you , we are generally surprised at your wonderful kindness to us on this occasion , it being ...
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Página 434 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 492 - ... 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 330 - THE HONOURABLE ROBERT BOYLE'S MEDITATIONS. '""PHIS 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 282 - I could not observe any circumstance of devotion in their behaviour : there was, indeed, a man in black who was mounted above the rest, and seemed to utter something with a great deal of vehemence ; but as for those underneath him, instead of paying their worship to the deity of the place, they were most of them bowing and curtseying to one another, and a considerable number of them fast asleep.
Página 247 - Rep, and many more, when we are already overloaded with monosyllables, which are the disgrace of our language. Thus we cram one syllable, and cut off the rest, as the owl fattened her mice after she had bit off their legs to prevent them from running away...
Página 434 - The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former. Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation to posterity, let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
Página 420 - I advise that your company at home should consist of men, rather than women. To say the truth, I never yet knew a tolerable woman to be fond of her own sex.
Página 330 - 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 423 - As little Respect as I have for the Generality of your Sex, it hath sometimes moved me with Pity, to see the Lady of the House forced to withdraw, immediately after Dinner, and this in Families where there is not much Drinking; as if it were an established Maxim, that Women are incapable of all Conversation.
Página 338 - This may be true in oratory ; but contemplation in other things, exceeds action. And therefore a wise man is never less alone, than when he is alone : Nunquam minus solus, quam cum solus.