The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen1C. Bathurst, 1768 |
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... equal skill and diligence might have been felected from an equal number of pages in any part of the eight volumes ; but he who is not convinced by thefe , that the Dean could not thus alter to pervert his meaning , and overlook blunders ...
... equal skill and diligence might have been felected from an equal number of pages in any part of the eight volumes ; but he who is not convinced by thefe , that the Dean could not thus alter to pervert his meaning , and overlook blunders ...
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... equal , and repulfed every attempt to hold him in dependance , or keep him at a distance , with the utmost resentment and indignation . D. S. It happened upon fome occafion , that Harley fent him a bank bill of fifty pounds by his ...
... equal , and repulfed every attempt to hold him in dependance , or keep him at a distance , with the utmost resentment and indignation . D. S. It happened upon fome occafion , that Harley fent him a bank bill of fifty pounds by his ...
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... equals by learning and parts . It happened , that having one day dined with Mr. St. John , who was then fecretary of ftate , and remarked that he appeared to be much out of temper , he took the firft opportunity to fee him alone , and ...
... equals by learning and parts . It happened , that having one day dined with Mr. St. John , who was then fecretary of ftate , and remarked that he appeared to be much out of temper , he took the firft opportunity to fee him alone , and ...
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... equal to his revenue , that his whole fortune , the value of his eftate in- cluded , amounted only to 16 , cool . This fum he directed , by his will , to be divided equally between his wife and four children , of which two were fons and ...
... equal to his revenue , that his whole fortune , the value of his eftate in- cluded , amounted only to 16 , cool . This fum he directed , by his will , to be divided equally between his wife and four children , of which two were fons and ...
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... equal happinefs : to feed idleness is to propagate mifery , and difcourage virtue ; but to insure the reward of industry is to beltow a be- nefit at once upon the individual and the publick ; it is to preserve from defpair those who ...
... equal happinefs : to feed idleness is to propagate mifery , and difcourage virtue ; but to insure the reward of industry is to beltow a be- nefit at once upon the individual and the publick ; it is to preserve from defpair those who ...
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Página 264 - 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 69 - These postulata being admitted, it will follow in due course of reasoning that those beings, which the world calls improperly suits of clothes, are in reality the most refined species of animals ; or, to proceed higher, that they are rational creatures, or men.
Página 259 - Things were at this crisis when a material accident fell out. For upon the highest corner of a large window there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant.
Página 57 - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.
Página 259 - 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 267 - 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 54 - It is a sackposset, wherein the deeper you go you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider because it is attended with an egg. But then...
Página 68 - To conclude from all, what is man himself but a micro-coat, or rather a complete suit of clothes with all its trimmings? As to his body there can be no dispute; but examine even the acquirements of his mind, you will find them all contribute in their order towards furnishing out an exact dress: to instance no more; is not religion a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt...
Página 188 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Página 75 - You taught how I might youth prolong, By knowing what was right and wrong; How from my heart to bring supplies Of lustre to my fading eyes...