The Works of D. Jonathan Swift: In Nine Volumes, Volumen9Dublin printed; and Edinburgh reprinted, for G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, and L. Hunter, at Edinburgh; and A. Stalker, at Glasgow; and sold by them and other booksellers., 1752 |
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... MANKIND . II . A BATTLE between the antient and mo- dern BOOKS in St. JAMES's Library . III . A Difcourfe con- cerning the MECHA NICAL OPERATION of the SPIRIT . Diu multumque defideratum . With the Author's APOLOGY , And explanatory ...
... MANKIND . II . A BATTLE between the antient and mo- dern BOOKS in St. JAMES's Library . III . A Difcourfe con- cerning the MECHA NICAL OPERATION of the SPIRIT . Diu multumque defideratum . With the Author's APOLOGY , And explanatory ...
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... Mankind , I might have faved myself the Trouble of this Apology ; for it is manifeft , " by the Reception the following Discourse hath met with , that thofe who approve it , are a great Majo- rity among the Men of Tafte : Yet there have ...
... Mankind , I might have faved myself the Trouble of this Apology ; for it is manifeft , " by the Reception the following Discourse hath met with , that thofe who approve it , are a great Majo- rity among the Men of Tafte : Yet there have ...
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... Mankind . So that I look upon myself , as fifty Shillings out of Pocket , to no Manner of Purpose . IF by altering the Title , I could make the fame Materials ferve for another Dedication , ( as my Betters have done ) it would help to ...
... Mankind . So that I look upon myself , as fifty Shillings out of Pocket , to no Manner of Purpose . IF by altering the Title , I could make the fame Materials ferve for another Dedication , ( as my Betters have done ) it would help to ...
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... Mankind , these Gen- tlemen might very well fpare their Reproof and Cor- rection : For there is not through all Nature , an- other fo callous and infenfible a Member as the World's Pofteriors , whether you apply to it the Toe or the ...
... Mankind , these Gen- tlemen might very well fpare their Reproof and Cor- rection : For there is not through all Nature , an- other fo callous and infenfible a Member as the World's Pofteriors , whether you apply to it the Toe or the ...
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... Mankind , are to be counted up . on a few Fingers ; but his Follies and Vices are in- numerable , and Time adds hourly to the Heap . ́ Now , the utmoft a poor Poet can do , is , to get by Heart a List of the cardinal Virtues , and deal ...
... Mankind , are to be counted up . on a few Fingers ; but his Follies and Vices are in- numerable , and Time adds hourly to the Heap . ́ Now , the utmoft a poor Poet can do , is , to get by Heart a List of the cardinal Virtues , and deal ...
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Página 36 - As to his body there can be no dispute ; but examine even the acquirements of his mind, you will find them all contribute in their order towards furnishing out an exact dress : to instance no more ; is not religion a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt, selflove a surtout, vanity a shirt, and conscience a pair of breeches, which, though a cover for lewdness as well as nastiness, is easily slipt down for the service of both...
Página 15 - But satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any, since every individual person makes bold to understand it of others, and very wisely removes his particular part of the burden upon the shoulders of the World, which are broad enough and able to bear it.
Página 149 - In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below, when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a...
Página 105 - The two senses to which all objects first address themselves are the sight and the touch. These never examine farther than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell, or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies...
Página 149 - Things were at this crisis when a material accident fell out. 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 106 - And he whose fortunes and dispositions have placed him in a convenient station to enjoy the fruits of this noble art ; he that can, with Epicurus, content his ideas with the films and images that fly off...
Página 105 - Now, I take all this to be the last degree of perverting nature; one of whose eternal laws it is, to put her best furniture forward. And therefore, in order to save the charges of all such expensive anatomy for the time to come, I do here think fit to inform the reader, that in such conclusions as these, reason is certainly in the right, and that in most corporeal beings, which have fallen under my...
Página 85 - Men do Lords, learn their Titles exactly, and then brag of their Acquaintance. Or Secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer Method, to get a thorough Insight into the Index, by which the whole Book is governed and turned, like Fishes by the Tail. For, to enter the Palace of Learning at the great Gate, requires an Expence of Time and Forms; therefore Men of much Haste and little Ceremony, are content to get in by the Back-Door.
Página 150 - Thrice he endeavoured to force his passage, and thrice the centre shook. The spider within, feeling the terrible convulsion, supposed at first that nature was approaching to her final dissolution ; or else, that Beelzebub, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects whom his enemy had slain and devoured.
Página 94 - ... of what is most perfect, finished, and exalted ; till, having soared out of his own reach and sight...