A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Uiversal Improvement of Mankind...J.Nutt, 1705 - 322 páginas |
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... at last out - fhine all Your Royal Ancestors , shall be the daily Prayer of , SIR , Decemb . 1697 . Tour Highness's Moft devoted , & c . THE THE 13 PREFACE . T HE Wits of the prefent PRINCE POSTERITY . IL Moft devoted, &c. ...
... at last out - fhine all Your Royal Ancestors , shall be the daily Prayer of , SIR , Decemb . 1697 . Tour Highness's Moft devoted , & c . THE THE 13 PREFACE . T HE Wits of the prefent PRINCE POSTERITY . IL Moft devoted, &c. ...
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... hundreds of Pre- faces , wherein the Authors do at the very beginning addrefs the gentle Reader con- cerning this enormous Grievance . Of these C 2 I have I have preferved a few Examples , and shall fet The PREFACE . 19.
... hundreds of Pre- faces , wherein the Authors do at the very beginning addrefs the gentle Reader con- cerning this enormous Grievance . Of these C 2 I have I have preferved a few Examples , and shall fet The PREFACE . 19.
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... shall fet them down as near as my Memory has been able to retain them : One begins thus ; For a Man to fet up for a Writer , when the Prefs fwarms with , & c . Another ; The Tax upon Paper does not leffen the Num- ber of Scriblers , who ...
... shall fet them down as near as my Memory has been able to retain them : One begins thus ; For a Man to fet up for a Writer , when the Prefs fwarms with , & c . Another ; The Tax upon Paper does not leffen the Num- ber of Scriblers , who ...
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... shall have room enough for us all . THERE are certain common Privileges of a Writer , the Benefit whereof , I hope there will be no Reafon to doubt ; parti- cularly , that where I am not understood , it fhall be concluded , that ...
... shall have room enough for us all . THERE are certain common Privileges of a Writer , the Benefit whereof , I hope there will be no Reafon to doubt ; parti- cularly , that where I am not understood , it fhall be concluded , that ...
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... - wards extending this Preface into the Size now in Vogue , which by Rule ought to be large in Proportion as the fubsequent Volume is fmall ; Yet I shall now ; now dismiss our impatient Reader from any farther Attendance 30 The PREFACE .
... - wards extending this Preface into the Size now in Vogue , which by Rule ought to be large in Proportion as the fubsequent Volume is fmall ; Yet I shall now ; now dismiss our impatient Reader from any farther Attendance 30 The PREFACE .
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Página 59 - Look on this globe of earth, you will find it to be a very complete and fashionable dress. What is that which some call land but a fine coat faced with green ? or the sea, but a waistcoat of water-tabby...
Página 139 - Thus physicians discover the state of the whole body, by consulting only what comes from behind. Thus men catch knowledge, by throwing their wit on the posteriors of a book, as boys do sparrows with flinging salt upon their tails.
Página 248 - ... 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 a universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax.
Página 243 - 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 247 - 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...
Página 154 - ... of what is most perfect, finished, and exalted; till, having soared out of his own reach and sight...
Página 175 - 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 250 - As for us the ancients, we are content, with the bee, to pretend to nothing of our own beyond our wings and our voice : that is to say, our flights and our language.
Página 8 - Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
Página 26 - ... all the virtues that have been ever in mankind, are to be counted upon a few fingers ; but their follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap.