The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen1C. Bathurst, 1755 |
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... besides three hundred pounds a year preferment in the church , yet Vanessa rejected the propofal in fuch terms as that it was never repeated . She was also addreffed by Dr. Price , who was afterwards archbishop of Cafhell , but without ...
... besides three hundred pounds a year preferment in the church , yet Vanessa rejected the propofal in fuch terms as that it was never repeated . She was also addreffed by Dr. Price , who was afterwards archbishop of Cafhell , but without ...
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... ; fince that is perhaps the most probable way to cure them , or at leaft to hinder them from far- ther spreading ? Besides , though it was not A 3 intended intended for their perufal , it rallies nothing but what AN APOLOGY . Y.
... ; fince that is perhaps the most probable way to cure them , or at leaft to hinder them from far- ther spreading ? Besides , though it was not A 3 intended intended for their perufal , it rallies nothing but what AN APOLOGY . Y.
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... besides , to discourse any farther of them would not be at all to my purpose . The third , and noblest fort is that of the TRUE CRITIC , whofe original is the most antient of all . Every true critic is a hero born , descending in a ...
... besides , to discourse any farther of them would not be at all to my purpose . The third , and noblest fort is that of the TRUE CRITIC , whofe original is the most antient of all . Every true critic is a hero born , descending in a ...
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... Besides , they have proved beyond contradiction , that the very finest things delivered of old , have been long fince invented , and brought to light by much later pens ; and that the nobleft discoveries those antients ever made of art ...
... Besides , they have proved beyond contradiction , that the very finest things delivered of old , have been long fince invented , and brought to light by much later pens ; and that the nobleft discoveries those antients ever made of art ...
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... beside that in Horace : Varias inducere plumas ; and Atrum definit in pifcem . For these had fifbes tails , yet upon occafion could out - fly any bird in the air . Peter put these bulls upon feveral employs . Some- times he would fet ...
... beside that in Horace : Varias inducere plumas ; and Atrum definit in pifcem . For these had fifbes tails , yet upon occafion could out - fly any bird in the air . Peter put these bulls upon feveral employs . Some- times he would fet ...
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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.