The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen1C. Bathurst, 1755 |
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... seem to have treat- ed him with a liberality for which it is difficult to ac- count . Upon the death of fir William Temple , Swift ap- This appears by a letter from Swift's fifter , then in Ire- land , to her coufin Deane in Por- tugal ...
... seem to have treat- ed him with a liberality for which it is difficult to ac- count . Upon the death of fir William Temple , Swift ap- This appears by a letter from Swift's fifter , then in Ire- land , to her coufin Deane in Por- tugal ...
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... seem to have been still among the men , but she was treated with great politenefs by the ladies . D. S. 92 . J. R. 42 . The dean's mind had been now fo filled with politics that he found it impracticable to excel as a preacher , his ...
... seem to have been still among the men , but she was treated with great politenefs by the ladies . D. S. 92 . J. R. 42 . The dean's mind had been now fo filled with politics that he found it impracticable to excel as a preacher , his ...
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... seems , indeed , to be generally agreed , that Stella was destroyed by the peculiarity of her circum- stances , and that the fabrick , however weak by the delicacy of its compofition , would not have fallen fo foon , if the foundation ...
... seems , indeed , to be generally agreed , that Stella was destroyed by the peculiarity of her circum- stances , and that the fabrick , however weak by the delicacy of its compofition , would not have fallen fo foon , if the foundation ...
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... seem to imply a perfect acquaint- ance with every peculiarity of his circumstances . letters on Stella's fickness , and from fir Arthur Achefon's . Dr. Sheridan was a clergyman of confiderable parts and great learning ; he had in ...
... seem to imply a perfect acquaint- ance with every peculiarity of his circumstances . letters on Stella's fickness , and from fir Arthur Achefon's . Dr. Sheridan was a clergyman of confiderable parts and great learning ; he had in ...
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... seems , to whofe care the education of your highness is committed , has refolved ( as I am told ) to keep you in almost an univerfal ignorance of our stu- dies , which it is your inherent birthright to infpect . It is amazing to me ...
... seems , to whofe care the education of your highness is committed , has refolved ( as I am told ) to keep you in almost an univerfal ignorance of our stu- dies , which it is your inherent birthright to infpect . It is amazing to me ...
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Página 173 - In the proportion that credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than curiosity, so far preferable is that wisdom which converses about the surface to that pretended philosophy which enters into the depth of things, and then comes gravely back with informations and discoveries that in the inside they are good for nothing.
Página 140 - Lords, learn their Titles exactly, and then brag of their Acquaintance. Or Secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer Method, to get a thorough Insight into the Index, by which the whole Book is governed and turned, like Fishes by the Tail. For, to enter the Palace of Learning at the great Gate, requires an Expence of Time and Forms; therefore Men of much Haste and little Ceremony, are content to get in by the Back-Door.
Página 24 - In the Attic commonwealth,* it was the privilege and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public...
Página 4 - 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 245 - ... defence. 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 wandering bee, to whose curiosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he...
Página 57 - 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 312 - Too intense a contemplation is not the business of flesh and blood; it must by the necessary course of things, in a little time let go its hold and fall into matter. Lovers, for the sake of celestial converse, are but another sort of Platonics who pretend to see stars and heaven in ladies...
Página 246 - I am glad," answered the bee, "to hear you grant at least that I am come honestly by my wings and my voice; for then, it seems, I am obliged to Heaven alone for my flights and my music; and Providence would never have bestowed on me two such gifts without designing them for the noblest ends.
Página 171 - ... whether things that have place in the imagination may not as properly be said to exist as those that are seated in the memory...
Página 45 - 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.