A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Uiversal Improvement of Mankind...J.Nutt, 1705 - 322 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 28
Página
... wonderful Talent at Drefs and Dancing ; Or , your Profound Knowledge in Algebra , Metaphyficks , and the Oriental Tongues : But to ply the Word with an old beaten Story of your Wit , and Eloquence , and Learning , and Wisdom , and ...
... wonderful Talent at Drefs and Dancing ; Or , your Profound Knowledge in Algebra , Metaphyficks , and the Oriental Tongues : But to ply the Word with an old beaten Story of your Wit , and Eloquence , and Learning , and Wisdom , and ...
Página 9
... wonderful importance between himself and a Bookfeller : He is a Writer of infinite Wit and Humour ; no Man raillyes with a better Grace , and in more fprightly Turns . Farther , I avow to Tour Highness , that with thefe Eyes I have be ...
... wonderful importance between himself and a Bookfeller : He is a Writer of infinite Wit and Humour ; no Man raillyes with a better Grace , and in more fprightly Turns . Farther , I avow to Tour Highness , that with thefe Eyes I have be ...
Página 16
... try , and kindle a wonderful Expectation of what is to enfue . Such was that of a most ingenious Poet , who folliciting his * Hor . + Read- ing Prefa- ces , & Brain 16 The PREFACE . ftick School, with French and Italian Ma ...
... try , and kindle a wonderful Expectation of what is to enfue . Such was that of a most ingenious Poet , who folliciting his * Hor . + Read- ing Prefa- ces , & Brain 16 The PREFACE . ftick School, with French and Italian Ma ...
Página 36
... wonderful Delight . There is now in the Prefs , ( and will be publifh'd next Term ) a Panegy- rical Effay of mine upon this Number , wherein I have by moft convincing Proofs , not only reduced the Senfes , and the Ele- ments ments under ...
... wonderful Delight . There is now in the Prefs , ( and will be publifh'd next Term ) a Panegy- rical Effay of mine upon this Number , wherein I have by moft convincing Proofs , not only reduced the Senfes , and the Ele- ments ments under ...
Página 65
... wonderfully con- trived , that a K was not to be found . Here was a weighty Difficulty ! But the diftinguishing Brother ( for whom we fhall hereafter find a Name ) now his Hand was in , proved by a very good Argument , that K was a ...
... wonderfully con- trived , that a K was not to be found . Here was a weighty Difficulty ! But the diftinguishing Brother ( for whom we fhall hereafter find a Name ) now his Hand was in , proved by a very good Argument , that K was a ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Affiftance affigned againſt alfo alſo Anceſtors Antients Author becauſe Befides beft beſt Body Brain Brothers Buſineſs Caufe Cauſe Circumftances clofe cloſe compleat confequently Courſe Defign defire Difcourfe Difpute diſcovered Eyes faid fame farther Faſhion feems felf fent ferve feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide fince firft firſt fome fometimes foon Friends ftill fuch fufficient fure furniſh ginal Guife hath Head himſelf Horfe iffuing Invention Jack juft laft leaft Learning lefs Lord Mankind Modern moft Momus moſt muft muſt Myſtery Nature never Nofe Number obferved Occafion paffed Perfon Peter Philofophers Pindar pleaſe Pofition prefent preferved Publick purpoſe raiſe Reader Reaſon refolved reft Satyr Scythian SECT ſeems Senfes ſhall Spirit Spleen Syftem thefe themſelves ther theſe Things thofe thoſe thouſand thro tion Tour Highness Treatife True Critick ufual underſtand underſtood univerfal uſeful utmoſt wherein whereof whofe wholly Word World Writers
Pasajes populares
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.