The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volumen1A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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... most excufable faults in the collection ; for the ma- terials are of fo different and fo incongruous a nature , that it seems as if the author ( who was in reality the editor ) imagined the public under an abfolute peceffity of ...
... most excufable faults in the collection ; for the ma- terials are of fo different and fo incongruous a nature , that it seems as if the author ( who was in reality the editor ) imagined the public under an abfolute peceffity of ...
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... most part been retained , because they were supposed to have been written , if not by the Dean , yet by fome friend who knew his particular view in the paffage they were intended to illuftrate , or the * Our mifcellany is now quite ...
... most part been retained , because they were supposed to have been written , if not by the Dean , yet by fome friend who knew his particular view in the paffage they were intended to illuftrate , or the * Our mifcellany is now quite ...
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... most probable , that the copy inferted in the Dublin edition is the genuine one , as it confifts of near soo lines . One reason why several paffages were fuppreffed in the London editions may have been , the fear of giving offence , as ...
... most probable , that the copy inferted in the Dublin edition is the genuine one , as it confifts of near soo lines . One reason why several paffages were fuppreffed in the London editions may have been , the fear of giving offence , as ...
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... most natural , and by which we could moft conveniently bring the work into eight volumes , of a fize near équal * . The first volume contains the Tale of a Tub , the Battle of the Books , the Fragment , fome tracts relating to religion ...
... most natural , and by which we could moft conveniently bring the work into eight volumes , of a fize near équal * . The first volume contains the Tale of a Tub , the Battle of the Books , the Fragment , fome tracts relating to religion ...
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... most of these are now confiderably enlarged , and many more are added . To fome of the large extracts from Orrery and Swift , we have given the title of Criticifms , as at the beginning of the ift , 6th , and 8th volumes . And care has ...
... most of these are now confiderably enlarged , and many more are added . To fome of the large extracts from Orrery and Swift , we have given the title of Criticifms , as at the beginning of the ift , 6th , and 8th volumes . And care has ...
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Página 313 - But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came •where he was ; and when he saw him he had compassion on him...
Página 313 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way : and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Página 314 - Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves ? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him. Go, and do thou likewise.
Página 313 - Thou fhalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy ftrength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyfelf.
Página 194 - For it is confidently reported, that two young gentlemen of real hopes, bright wit, and profound judgment, who, upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learning...
Página 194 - To offer at the restoring of that, would indeed be a wild project: it would be to dig up foundations ; to destroy at one blow all the wit, and half the learning of the kingdom ; to break the entire frame and constitution of things; to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences, with the professors of them; in short, to turn our courts, exchanges, and shops into deserts...
Página 25 - I do therefore affirm upon the word of a sincere man, that there is now actually in being a certain poet, called John Dryden, whose translation of Virgil was lately printed in a large folio, well bound, and if diligent search were made, for aught...
Página 51 - ... in the posture of a Persian emperor, sitting on a superficies, with his legs interwoven under him. This god had a goose for his ensign : whence it is that some learned men pretend to deduce his original from Jupiter Capitolinus.
Página 52 - These postulata being admitted, it will follow in due course of reasoning that those beings, which the world calls improperly suits of clothes, are in reality the most refined species of animals ; or, to proceed higher, that they are rational creatures, or men.
Página 314 - But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him.