The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essaysA. Constable, 1814 |
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... kingdom ; and am a stranger to their characters , farther than as common fame reports them , which is not to be depended on ; therefore I cannot be supposed to act upon a principle of resentment . I esteem their functions ( if I may be ...
... kingdom ; and am a stranger to their characters , farther than as common fame reports them , which is not to be depended on ; therefore I cannot be supposed to act upon a principle of resentment . I esteem their functions ( if I may be ...
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... kingdom , is precarious and uncertain , collected from a most miserable race of beggarly farmers ; at whose mercy every minister lies to be defraud- ed . His office , as rector or vicar , if it be duly executed , is very laborious . As ...
... kingdom , is precarious and uncertain , collected from a most miserable race of beggarly farmers ; at whose mercy every minister lies to be defraud- ed . His office , as rector or vicar , if it be duly executed , is very laborious . As ...
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... kingdom , who are promoted to bishoprics , have always some great advantages ; either that of rich deaneries , opulent and multiplied rectories and dignities , strong al- liances by birth or marriage , fortified by a super- lative ...
... kingdom , who are promoted to bishoprics , have always some great advantages ; either that of rich deaneries , opulent and multiplied rectories and dignities , strong al- liances by birth or marriage , fortified by a super- lative ...
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... kingdom ( which inevitably without a miracle must increase for ever ) there are not ten country cler- gymen in Ireland , reputed to possess a parish of 1001. per annum , who for some years past have actually received 601. and that with ...
... kingdom ( which inevitably without a miracle must increase for ever ) there are not ten country cler- gymen in Ireland , reputed to possess a parish of 1001. per annum , who for some years past have actually received 601. and that with ...
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... kingdom not to be so overstocked with neighbouring gentry , but a discreet learned cler- gyman , with a competency fit for one of his edu- cation , may be an entertaining , a useful , and sometimes a necessary companion . That ...
... kingdom not to be so overstocked with neighbouring gentry , but a discreet learned cler- gyman , with a competency fit for one of his edu- cation , may be an entertaining , a useful , and sometimes a necessary companion . That ...
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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.