Selections from the Prose Writings of Jonathan SwiftKegan Paul, Trench, 1884 - 284 páginas |
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... heard of : unhappy infants ! many of them bar- barously destroyed before they have so much as learnt their mother tongue to beg for pity . Some he stifles in their cradles ; others he frights into convulsions , whereof they suddenly die ...
... heard of : unhappy infants ! many of them bar- barously destroyed before they have so much as learnt their mother tongue to beg for pity . Some he stifles in their cradles ; others he frights into convulsions , whereof they suddenly die ...
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... , and at last outshine all your royal ancestors , shall be the daily prayer of , SIR , your highness's Decemb . 1697 . most devoted , & c . THE INTRODUCTION WHOEVER has an ambition to be heard in THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY 9.
... , and at last outshine all your royal ancestors , shall be the daily prayer of , SIR , your highness's Decemb . 1697 . most devoted , & c . THE INTRODUCTION WHOEVER has an ambition to be heard in THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY 9.
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... heard in a crowd , must press , and squeeze , and thrust , and climb , with indefatigable pains , till he has exalted himself to a certain degree of altitude above them . Now , in all assemblies , though you wedge them ever so close ...
... heard in a crowd , must press , and squeeze , and thrust , and climb , with indefatigable pains , till he has exalted himself to a certain degree of altitude above them . Now , in all assemblies , though you wedge them ever so close ...
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... were made clearly out to be jure paterno : and our three gentlemen swaggered with as large and as flaunting ones as the best . A DIGRESSION IN PRAISE OF DIGRESSIONS I HAVE Sometimes heard WHAT IS MAN BUT A MICRO - COAT ? 25.
... were made clearly out to be jure paterno : and our three gentlemen swaggered with as large and as flaunting ones as the best . A DIGRESSION IN PRAISE OF DIGRESSIONS I HAVE Sometimes heard WHAT IS MAN BUT A MICRO - COAT ? 25.
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... heard of an Iliad in a nut - shell ; but it has been my fortune to have much oftener seen a nut - shell in an Iliad . There is no doubt that human life has received most wonderful advantages from both ; but to which of the two the world ...
... heard of an Iliad in a nut - shell ; but it has been my fortune to have much oftener seen a nut - shell in an Iliad . There is no doubt that human life has received most wonderful advantages from both ; but to which of the two the world ...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift,Stanley Lane-Poole Vista completa - 1884 |
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Página 125 - We next went to the School of Languages, where three Professors sat in Consultation upon improving that of their own Country. The first Project was to shorten Discourse by cutting Polysyllables into one, and leaving out Verbs and Participles; because in Reality all things imaginable are but Nouns.
Página 81 - Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea. We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage at first was very prosperous. It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the northwest of Van Diemen's Land.
Página 133 - When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.
Página 221 - Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass the skin of which artificially dressed will make admirable gloves for ladies and summer boots for fine gentlemen. As to our city of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers, we may be assured, will not be wanting; although I rather recommend buying the children alive and dressing them hot from the knife as we do roasting pigs.
Página 217 - ... leave their dear native country to fight for the Pretender in Spain or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.
Página 222 - Psalmanazar, a native of the island Formosa, who came from thence to London above twenty years ago, and in conversation told my friend that in his country when any young person happened to be put to death, the executioner sold the carcass to persons of quality as a prime dainty; and that in his time the body of a plump girl of fifteen, who was crucified for an attempt to poison the emperor, was sold to his Imperial Majesty's prime minister of state, and other great mandarins of the court, in joints...
Página 218 - There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas!
Página 212 - The remedy is wholly in your own hands ; and therefore I have digressed a little, in order to refresh and continue that spirit so seasonably raised among you ; and to let you see, that by the laws of GOD, of NATURE, of NATIONS, and of your COUNTRY, you ARE, and OUGHT to be, as FREE a people as your brethren in England.
Página 222 - ... it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty; which, I confess, hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how well soever intended.
Página 227 - But before something of that kind shall be advanced in contradiction to my scheme and offering a better, I desire the author or authors will be pleased maturely to consider two -points: first, as things now stand, how they will be able to find food and raiment for...