A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Uiversal Improvement of Mankind...J.Nutt, 1705 - 322 páginas |
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Página 64
... appeared extreamly re- quifite . After much Thought , one of the Brothers who happened to be more Book- learned than the other two , said , he had found an Expedient . ' Tis true , faid he , there is nothing here in this Will , totidem ...
... appeared extreamly re- quifite . After much Thought , one of the Brothers who happened to be more Book- learned than the other two , said , he had found an Expedient . ' Tis true , faid he , there is nothing here in this Will , totidem ...
Página 66
... appeared clofed up in Bars of Gold Lace : Whoever durft peep abroad without his Complement of Gold Lace , was as fcandalous as a- and as ill receiv- ed among the Women . What should our three Knights do in this momentous Af- fair ; They ...
... appeared clofed up in Bars of Gold Lace : Whoever durft peep abroad without his Complement of Gold Lace , was as fcandalous as a- and as ill receiv- ed among the Women . What should our three Knights do in this momentous Af- fair ; They ...
Página 71
... appeared higher in the Fashion than any Body else in the Town . But they folved the Matter by saying , that these Figures were not at all the fame with those that were formerly worn , and were meant in the Will . Befides , they did not ...
... appeared higher in the Fashion than any Body else in the Town . But they folved the Matter by saying , that these Figures were not at all the fame with those that were formerly worn , and were meant in the Will . Befides , they did not ...
Página 97
... appeared ex- actly the fame , with what is in common Service for Beef , and Butter , and Herrings , ( and has been often that way applied with great Succefs ) but for its many So- vereign Virtues was quite a different Thing For Peter ...
... appeared ex- actly the fame , with what is in common Service for Beef , and Butter , and Herrings , ( and has been often that way applied with great Succefs ) but for its many So- vereign Virtues was quite a different Thing For Peter ...
Página 98
... and to be nothing so terri- ble as it appeared ; proceeding only from their usual Course of Dyet , which was of Squibs and Crackers . However , they had two two peculiar Marks which extreamly di- ftinguished them from the 98 ATALE.
... and to be nothing so terri- ble as it appeared ; proceeding only from their usual Course of Dyet , which was of Squibs and Crackers . However , they had two two peculiar Marks which extreamly di- ftinguished them from the 98 ATALE.
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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.