The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Including the Whole of His Posthumous Pieces, Letters, &c, Volumen1C. Elliot, 1784 |
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... please to capacitate and prepare himself by thefe directions . And this I lay down as my principal poftulatum . Because I have profeffed to be a most devoted fervant of all modern forms , I apprehend fome curious wit may object against ...
... please to capacitate and prepare himself by thefe directions . And this I lay down as my principal poftulatum . Because I have profeffed to be a most devoted fervant of all modern forms , I apprehend fome curious wit may object against ...
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... please against a- varice , hypocrify , and extortion . It is but a ball bandied to and fro ; and every man carries a racket about him , to strike it from himself among the reft of the company . But , on the other fide , whoever fhould ...
... please against a- varice , hypocrify , and extortion . It is but a ball bandied to and fro ; and every man carries a racket about him , to strike it from himself among the reft of the company . But , on the other fide , whoever fhould ...
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... please to look into the original defign of its erection , and the circumftances or adjuncts fubfervient to that defign , they will foon acknowledge the prefent practice exactly corref- pondent to the primitive inftitution ; and both to ...
... please to look into the original defign of its erection , and the circumftances or adjuncts fubfervient to that defign , they will foon acknowledge the prefent practice exactly corref- pondent to the primitive inftitution ; and both to ...
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... please your wor- Ships , faid he , my Lord C- , and Sir J. W. had linings out of this very piece last night . It takes wonderfully ; and I shall not have a remnant left , enough to make my wife a pin - cushion , by to - morrow morning ...
... please your wor- Ships , faid he , my Lord C- , and Sir J. W. had linings out of this very piece last night . It takes wonderfully ; and I shall not have a remnant left , enough to make my wife a pin - cushion , by to - morrow morning ...
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... his great candour , will please a little to ex- alt his idea , I am afraid he will henceforth hardly know the hero of the play , when he happens to meet meet him ; his part , his dress , and Sect . 3 . A Digreffion concerning Critics . 285.
... his great candour , will please a little to ex- alt his idea , I am afraid he will henceforth hardly know the hero of the play , when he happens to meet meet him ; his part , his dress , and Sect . 3 . A Digreffion concerning Critics . 285.
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Página 351 - These never examine farther than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell, or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies ; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate that they are not of the same consistence quite through.
Página 408 - You boast, indeed, of being obliged to no other creature, but of drawing and spinning out all from yourself ; that is to say, if we may judge of the liquor in the vessel by what issues out, you possess a good plentiful store of dirt and poison in your breast...
Página 234 - Tis but a ball bandied to and fro, and every man carries a racket about him, to strike it from himself, among the rest of the company.
Página 260 - It is true, indeed, that these animals, which are vulgarly called suits of clothes, or dresses, do, according to certain compositions, receive different appellations. If one of them be trimmed up with a gold chain, and a red gown, and a white rod, and a great horse, it is called a...
Página 259 - 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 336 - ... of what is most perfect, finished, and exalted; till having soared out of his own reach and sight, not well perceiving how near the frontiers of height and depth border upon each other...
Página 32 - Kensington with the whole account of the matter in writing to convince the King and the Earl how ill they were informed. He told the Earl, to whom he was referred by his majesty (and gave it in writing), that the ruin of King Charles the First was not owing to his passing the triennial bill, which did not hinder him from dissolving any parliament, but to the passing of...
Página 258 - Look on this globe of earth, you will find it to be a very complete and fashionable dress. What is that which some call land but a fine coat faced with green ? or the sea, but a waistcoat of water-tabby...
Página 259 - 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 408 - 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...