The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen1C. Bathurst, 1768 |
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... method and fcheme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger discourse ; and he was forry to observe the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by thofe those who have answered this ...
... method and fcheme he had intended , for it was the ground - work of a much larger discourse ; and he was forry to observe the materials fo foolishly employed . There is one farther objection made by thofe those who have answered this ...
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... method , to perufe a hundred or two of dedications , and transcribe an abstract to be applied to your lordship ; but I was diverted by a certain accident : for , upon the covers of these papers , I cafually obferved written in large ...
... method , to perufe a hundred or two of dedications , and transcribe an abstract to be applied to your lordship ; but I was diverted by a certain accident : for , upon the covers of these papers , I cafually obferved written in large ...
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... methods of tyranny and destruction , which your governor is pleased to practise upon this occafion . His inveterate malice is fuch to the writings of our age , that of feveral thousands produced yearly from this renowned city , before ...
... methods of tyranny and destruction , which your governor is pleased to practise upon this occafion . His inveterate malice is fuch to the writings of our age , that of feveral thousands produced yearly from this renowned city , before ...
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... rea- der defires to have a thorough compre- henfion of an author's thoughts , cannot take a better method , than by putting himself into the circumftances and postures • • of of life , that the writer was in upon every 28 THE PREFACE .
... rea- der defires to have a thorough compre- henfion of an author's thoughts , cannot take a better method , than by putting himself into the circumftances and postures • • of of life , that the writer was in upon every 28 THE PREFACE .
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... methods , that I can think on ; whereof the wisdom of our ancestors being highly fenfible , has , to encourage all afpiring ad- venturers , thought fit to erect three wooden machines for the ufe of thofe orators , who defire to talk ...
... methods , that I can think on ; whereof the wisdom of our ancestors being highly fenfible , has , to encourage all afpiring ad- venturers , thought fit to erect three wooden machines for the ufe of thofe orators , who defire to talk ...
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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...