The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 páginas |
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... also preferved to us by Deane Swift , Efq ; a begun sketch of the Doctor's life , compofed by himself ; but contain- ing little more than an account of the family of the Swifts , and fome few transactions of his younger years . From a ...
... also preferved to us by Deane Swift , Efq ; a begun sketch of the Doctor's life , compofed by himself ; but contain- ing little more than an account of the family of the Swifts , and fome few transactions of his younger years . From a ...
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... also held another ecclefiaftical living . His father William Swift , rector of St Andrew's in Canterbury , married the heiress of Philpot ; who con- trived to keep her eftate , which was very confider- able , in her own hands . She is ...
... also held another ecclefiaftical living . His father William Swift , rector of St Andrew's in Canterbury , married the heiress of Philpot ; who con- trived to keep her eftate , which was very confider- able , in her own hands . She is ...
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... also been thought by fome to have been a na- tural fon of Sir William Temple : a mistake which was probably founded upon another ; for till the publica- tion of his letter to Lord Vifc . Palmerston , among his pofthumous works , [ in ...
... also been thought by fome to have been a na- tural fon of Sir William Temple : a mistake which was probably founded upon another ; for till the publica- tion of his letter to Lord Vifc . Palmerston , among his pofthumous works , [ in ...
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... also drew the first sketch of his Tale of a Tub . ‡ . VOL . I. b IN He held logic and metaphyfics in the utmost contempt , and fcarce confidered mathematics and natural philosophy , unless to them into ridicule . Orrery , let . 1 . + ...
... also drew the first sketch of his Tale of a Tub . ‡ . VOL . I. b IN He held logic and metaphyfics in the utmost contempt , and fcarce confidered mathematics and natural philosophy , unless to them into ridicule . Orrery , let . 1 . + ...
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... also mistaken , when he fays , that females were rarely admitted into his house , and never came but upon very particular invitations . The absence of persons whom he kept at fuch distance , and fo rarely admitted , could fcarce be ...
... also mistaken , when he fays , that females were rarely admitted into his house , and never came but upon very particular invitations . The absence of persons whom he kept at fuch distance , and fo rarely admitted , could fcarce be ...
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Página 260 - 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.
Página 259 - And by chance there came down a certain priest that way ; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.
Página 259 - ... .And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him ; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again I will repay thee.
Página 259 - 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.
Página 105 - 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 ; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate that they are not of the same consistence quite through.
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 146 - 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 104 - ... whether things that have place in the imagination may not as properly be said to exist as those that are seated in the memory...
Página 190 - 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 lxxxiv - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.