The works of Jonathan Swift, Volumen1G. Faulkner, 1742 |
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... seem to know the Author beft , that when People of more Curiofity than Taste or Manners , offered to charge him with fome Trifles which he had not writ , be would never give them the leaft Satisfaction , by owning or denying it . If we ...
... seem to know the Author beft , that when People of more Curiofity than Taste or Manners , offered to charge him with fome Trifles which he had not writ , be would never give them the leaft Satisfaction , by owning or denying it . If we ...
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... seems to be placed in the whole Body , wherever the executive Part of it lies . This holds in the Body natural : For , where- VOL . I. B ever ever we place the Eeginning of Motion , whether from CONTENTS CHAP I Difcourfe of the Contests ...
... seems to be placed in the whole Body , wherever the executive Part of it lies . This holds in the Body natural : For , where- VOL . I. B ever ever we place the Eeginning of Motion , whether from CONTENTS CHAP I Difcourfe of the Contests ...
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... seem to agree in this ; that it was a Trust too great to be committed to any one Man , or Affembly ; and therefore they left the Right ftill in the whole Body ; but the Adminiftration , or executive Part , in the Hands of One , the Few ...
... seem to agree in this ; that it was a Trust too great to be committed to any one Man , or Affembly ; and therefore they left the Right ftill in the whole Body ; but the Adminiftration , or executive Part , in the Hands of One , the Few ...
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... seems , they were at all Times apt to fall into , and was at laft among the Causes that ruined their State : And the frequent Murders of their Generals , which Diodorus tells us , was grown to an established Custom among them , may be ...
... seems , they were at all Times apt to fall into , and was at laft among the Causes that ruined their State : And the frequent Murders of their Generals , which Diodorus tells us , was grown to an established Custom among them , may be ...
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... seems , one Night , the Stone Images of Mer- cury , placed in feveral Parts of the City , were all pared in the Face : This Action the Athenians in- terpreted for a Defign of deftroying the popular State ; and Alcibiades , having been ...
... seems , one Night , the Stone Images of Mer- cury , placed in feveral Parts of the City , were all pared in the Face : This Action the Athenians in- terpreted for a Defign of deftroying the popular State ; and Alcibiades , having been ...
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Página 97 - But still there is in this project a greater mischief behind; and we ought to beware of the woman's folly, who killed the hen that every morning laid her a golden egg. For, pray what would become of the race of men in the next age, if we had nothing to trust to beside the scrofulous, consumptive productions furnished by our men of wit and pleasure...
Página 56 - ... now handled by every dirty wench, condemned to do her drudgery, and, by a capricious kind of fate, destined to make other things clean, and be nasty itself; at length, worn to the stumps in the...
Página 108 - To conclude : whatever some may think of the great advantages to trade by this favourite scheme, I do very much apprehend, that in six months...
Página 271 - Beauty with more durable Qualities. You have but a very few years to be young and handsome in the eyes of the World ; and as few months to be so in the eyes of a Husband, who is not a Fool ; for I hope you do not still dream of Charms and Raptures, which Marriage ever did, and ever will, put a sudden end to.
Página 186 - ... if it were once refined to a certain standard, perhaps there might be ways found out to fix it for ever, or at least till we are invaded and made a conquest by some other state...
Página 228 - This last piece of civility had like to have cost me dear, being once or twice in danger of my neck by leaping over his ditches, and at last forced to alight in the dirt, when my horse, having slipped his bridle, ran away, and took us up more than an hour to recover him again. It...
Página 314 - ... 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 187 - The period, wherein the English tongue received most improvement, I take to commence with the beginning of queen Elizabeth's reign, and to conclude with the great rebellion in forty two.
Página 96 - It is likewise urged that there are, by computation, in this kingdom above ten thousand parsons, whose revenues added to those of my lords the bishops would suffice to maintain at least two hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure and free-thinking, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices; who might be an ornament to the Court and Town. And then again, so great a number of able [bodied] divines might be a recruit to our fleet and armies.
Página 104 - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject, so calculated in all points, whereon to display their abilities?