A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which is Added, an Account of a Battle Between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. Jame's Library. With the Author's Apology; and Explanatory NotesDurrell, 1812 - 234 páginas |
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... fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of more . When Dr. Eachard writ his book about the contempt of the clergy , numbers of these answerers immediately started up , whose memory if he had not kept alive by his ...
... fall and die with the leaves in autumn , and are never heard of more . When Dr. Eachard writ his book about the contempt of the clergy , numbers of these answerers immediately started up , whose memory if he had not kept alive by his ...
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... fall under horrible apprehensions , lest these gentlemen , during the intervals of a long peace , should find leisure to pick holes in the weak sides of religion and government . To prevent which , there has been much thought employed ...
... fall under horrible apprehensions , lest these gentlemen , during the intervals of a long peace , should find leisure to pick holes in the weak sides of religion and government . To prevent which , there has been much thought employed ...
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... fall against the people in general , was immediately caught up , and re- venged upon the authors , however considerable for their quality or their merits . Whereas in England it is just the reverse of all this . Here , you may securely ...
... fall against the people in general , was immediately caught up , and re- venged upon the authors , however considerable for their quality or their merits . Whereas in England it is just the reverse of all this . Here , you may securely ...
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... fall down with a sufficient force . Corpoream quoque enim vocem constare fatendum est , Et sonitum , quoniam possunt impellere sensus . † Lucr . lib . iv . And I am the readier to favour this conjecture , from a common observation ...
... fall down with a sufficient force . Corpoream quoque enim vocem constare fatendum est , Et sonitum , quoniam possunt impellere sensus . † Lucr . lib . iv . And I am the readier to favour this conjecture , from a common observation ...
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... falling to the holy see , jure di- vino . MS . Pate . The bishops of Rome en oyed their privileges in Rome , at first , by the favour of emperors , whom at last ( they shut out of their own capital city , and then forged a donation from ...
... falling to the holy see , jure di- vino . MS . Pate . The bishops of Rome en oyed their privileges in Rome , at first , by the favour of emperors , whom at last ( they shut out of their own capital city , and then forged a donation from ...
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A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. to Which ... Jonathan Swift,William Wotton Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 213 - Your inherent portion of dirt does not fail of acquisitions, by sweepings exhaled from below; and one insect furnishes you with a share of poison to destroy another. So that, in short, the question comes all to this — Whether is the nobler being of the two, that which, by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride, feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all, but flybane and a cobweb; or that which, by an universal range,...
Página 100 - Lastly, a true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
Página 211 - ... end ; he stormed and swore like a madman, and swelled till he was ready to burst. At length, casting his eye upon the .bee, and wisely gathering causes from events, (for they knew each other by sight,) A plague split you...
Página 210 - For upon the highest corner of a large window there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant.
Página 152 - But when a man's fancy gets astride on his reason, when imagination is at cuffs with the senses, and common understanding as well as common sense is kickt out of doors...
Página 212 - Not to disparage myself," said he, " by the comparison with such a rascal, what art thou but a vagabond without house or home, without stock or inheritance, born to no possession of your own but a pair of wings and a drone-pipe ? Your livelihood is...
Página 60 - Tis but a ball bandied to and fro, and every man carries a racket about him to strike it from himself among the rest of the company.
Página 115 - To this end I have some time since, with a world of pains and art, dissected the carcass of human nature, and read many useful lectures upon the several parts, both containing and contained, till at last it smelt so strong I could preserve it no longer.
Página 135 - By these methods, in a few weeks, there starts up many a writer, capable of managing the profoundest and most universal subjects. For, what though his head be empty, provided his commonplace book be full...