The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essaysA. Constable, 1814 |
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... happen to mis- take in any fact of consequence , I desire my re- marks upon it may pass for nothing ; for my in- formation is no better than what I received in words from several divines , who seemed to agree with each other . I have ...
... happen to mis- take in any fact of consequence , I desire my re- marks upon it may pass for nothing ; for my in- formation is no better than what I received in words from several divines , who seemed to agree with each other . I have ...
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... happened . I confess , I do not remember to have observed any body of men acting with so little concert , as our clergy have done , in a point where their opi- nions appeared to be unanimous : a point , wherein TWO BILLS , & c . 15.
... happened . I confess , I do not remember to have observed any body of men acting with so little concert , as our clergy have done , in a point where their opi- nions appeared to be unanimous : a point , wherein TWO BILLS , & c . 15.
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... happen . I had written thus far , when a paper was sent to me with several reasons against the bill , some whereof , although they have been already touch- ed , are put in a better light , and the rest did not occur to me . I shall ...
... happen . I had written thus far , when a paper was sent to me with several reasons against the bill , some whereof , although they have been already touch- ed , are put in a better light , and the rest did not occur to me . I shall ...
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... happen to be read by customers of all ranks , for curiosity and amuse- ment , because they lie always in the way . One of these authors ( the fellow that was pilloried , I have forgot his name ) * is indeed so grave , sen- tentious ...
... happen to be read by customers of all ranks , for curiosity and amuse- ment , because they lie always in the way . One of these authors ( the fellow that was pilloried , I have forgot his name ) * is indeed so grave , sen- tentious ...
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... happen as I de- scribe , yet the presbyterian religion could never be made the national by act of parliament , be- cause our bishops are so great a number in the house of lords ; and without a majority there , the church could not be ...
... happen as I de- scribe , yet the presbyterian religion could never be made the national by act of parliament , be- cause our bishops are so great a number in the house of lords ; and without a majority there , the church could not be ...
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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.