The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ...W. Bowyer, C. Bathurst, W. Owen, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis, and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder and Company and B. Collins., 1768 |
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... fure to de- cide in favour of themselves , talk much of inherent right ; they will nourish up a dormant power , and referve privileges in petto , to exert upon occafions , to ferve expedients , and to urge upon neceffities ; they will ...
... fure to de- cide in favour of themselves , talk much of inherent right ; they will nourish up a dormant power , and referve privileges in petto , to exert upon occafions , to ferve expedients , and to urge upon neceffities ; they will ...
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... fure to run up- on the very rock , that they meant to avoid ; which , I fuppofe they would have us think , is the tyranny of a single person . Many examples might be produced of the endeavours of each of these three ri- vals after ...
... fure to run up- on the very rock , that they meant to avoid ; which , I fuppofe they would have us think , is the tyranny of a single person . Many examples might be produced of the endeavours of each of these three ri- vals after ...
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... fure to meet with a divided power at home , and therefore bent all their thoughts and ap- plications to close in with the people , who were now by many degrees the ftronger party . Two of the greateft fpirits , that Rome ever produced ...
... fure to meet with a divided power at home , and therefore bent all their thoughts and ap- plications to close in with the people , who were now by many degrees the ftronger party . Two of the greateft fpirits , that Rome ever produced ...
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... fure I am none in government . I con- verfe in full freedom with many confide- rable men of both parties ; and if not in equal number , it is purely accidental and perfonal , as happening to be near the court , and to have made ...
... fure I am none in government . I con- verfe in full freedom with many confide- rable men of both parties ; and if not in equal number , it is purely accidental and perfonal , as happening to be near the court , and to have made ...
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... fure it is moft agreeable to primitive inftitution , fitteft of all o- thers for preferving order and purity , and under its prefent regulations beft cal- culated for our civil ftate : he should there- fore think the abolishment of that ...
... fure it is moft agreeable to primitive inftitution , fitteft of all o- thers for preferving order and purity , and under its prefent regulations beft cal- culated for our civil ftate : he should there- fore think the abolishment of that ...
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Página 389 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 398 - The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.
Página 138 - For it is confidently reported, that two young gentlemen of real hopes, bright wit, and profound judgment, who, upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learning...
Página 314 - My lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation, complain to your lordship, as first minister, that our language is extremely imperfect; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Página 139 - Great wits love to be free with the highest objects, and if they cannot be allowed a God to revile or renounce, they will speak evil of dignities, abuse the Government, and reflect upon the Ministry...
Página 144 - Sundays than other days? is not that the chief day for traders to sum up the accounts of the week, and for lawyers to prepare their briefs? But I would fain know, how it can be pretended, that the churches are misapplied? where are more appointments and rendezvouses of gallantry? where more care to appear in the foremost box with greater advantage of dress? where more meetings for business, where more bargains driven of all sorts? and where so many conveniences or enticements to sleep?
Página 395 - Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of.
Página 309 - ... now at best but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air...
Página 154 - What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject. We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left?
Página 399 - Law in a free country is, or ought to be, the determination of the majority of those who have property in land.