| Jonathan Swift - 1742 - 386 páginas
...therefore confident, that, inftead of Reafon, we were only pofleffed of feme Quality fitted to increafe our natural Vices ; as the Reflection from a troubled Stream returns the Image of an ill-fhapen Body, not only larger, but more diftorted. He added, that he had heard too much upon the... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1743 - 430 páginas
...therefore confident, that inltead of Reafon, we were only poffefied of fome Quality fitted to increafe our natural Vices; as the Reflection from a troubled Stream, returns the Image of an ill-fhapen Body, noc only large, but more dijlorted. HE added, That he had heard too much upon the... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 páginas
...Cutting his hoof. But when a creature, pretending " to reason, could be capable of such enormities, he " dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty, might " be worse than brutality itself." It may be said that the instances of depravity above quoted, are only to be found among savages, whose... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 524 páginas
...for cutting his hoof. But, when a creature pretending to reason Could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty might...reflection from a troubled stream returns the image of an,ill-shapen body, not only larger but more distorted." He added, " that he had heard too much upon... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 374 páginas
...for cutting his hoof. But, when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded, lest the corruption of that faculty, might...ill-shapen body, not only larger but more distorted." light: with war, including every species of iniquity and every art of destruction, we become familiar... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 384 páginas
...usually supplied by some quality fitted to increase our natural vices, as a troubled stream reflects the image of an ill-shapen body not only larger, but more distorted, ix. 279. Writers of travels, like dictionary makers, are sunk into oblivion by the weight and bulk... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 páginas
...for cutting his hoof. But when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty might be worse than brutality horrid cruelty of war so effectually, as by this simple exhibition of them in a new light. With war,... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 páginas
...for cutting his hoof. But when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty might be worse than brutality horrid cruelty of war so effectually, as by this simple exhibition of them in a new light. With war,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 páginas
...for cutting his hoof. But, when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty might...itself. He seemed therefore confident, that, instead of au age in which the mind implicitly receives and retains whatever is impressed: thus it happens, that... | |
| 1842 - 1124 páginas
...for cutting his hoof. But, when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded, lest the corruption of that faculty, might...some quality, fitted to increase our natural vices ; us the reflection from a troubled stream returns the image of an ill-shaped body, not only larger... | |
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