Selections from the Prose Writings of Jonathan SwiftKegan Paul, Trench, 1884 - 284 páginas |
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... opinions as a Church- man , which form the key to many difficulties in his political career . Swift was before all things a church- man , but his thorough contempt for abstract thought , as for abstract politics , made him rather a ...
... opinions as a Church- man , which form the key to many difficulties in his political career . Swift was before all things a church- man , but his thorough contempt for abstract thought , as for abstract politics , made him rather a ...
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... , he worked a marvellous change in the country at large . Right or wrong about Wood's halfpence and other matters , he created public opinion in a " nation of slaves , " and used it as a political force against a bad law PREFACE xxvii.
... , he worked a marvellous change in the country at large . Right or wrong about Wood's halfpence and other matters , he created public opinion in a " nation of slaves , " and used it as a political force against a bad law PREFACE xxvii.
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... opinions in an age so remote , he may better comprehend those great events which were the issue of them . I advise , therefore , the courteous reader to peruse with a world of application , again and again , whatever I have written upon ...
... opinions in an age so remote , he may better comprehend those great events which were the issue of them . I advise , therefore , the courteous reader to peruse with a world of application , again and again , whatever I have written upon ...
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... opinions , after perpetual justlings , the sharp with the smooth , the light and the heavy , the round and the square , would by certain clinamina unite in the notions of atoms and void , as these did in the originals of all things ...
... opinions , after perpetual justlings , the sharp with the smooth , the light and the heavy , the round and the square , would by certain clinamina unite in the notions of atoms and void , as these did in the originals of all things ...
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... opinion , neither better nor worse than that of unmasking , which , I think , has never been allowed fair usage , either in the world or the playhouse . In the proportion that credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than ...
... opinion , neither better nor worse than that of unmasking , which , I think , has never been allowed fair usage , either in the world or the playhouse . In the proportion that credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than ...
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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...