The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, 1784 |
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... such as we meet in Tacitus and other authors ; which ended by degrees in many * barbarities , even before the Goths had invaded Italy . The fame of our writers is ufually confined to these two islands , and it is hard it fhould be ...
... such as we meet in Tacitus and other authors ; which ended by degrees in many * barbarities , even before the Goths had invaded Italy . The fame of our writers is ufually confined to these two islands , and it is hard it fhould be ...
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... such a discouraging employment : for , the best English historian must lie under this mortification , that when his style grows antiquated , he will be only confidered as a tedious relater of facts ; and perhaps confulted in his turn ...
... such a discouraging employment : for , the best English historian must lie under this mortification , that when his style grows antiquated , he will be only confidered as a tedious relater of facts ; and perhaps confulted in his turn ...
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... such a weight of business and oppofition ; even your justice , pru- dence , and magnanimity , will shine less bright without it . Your lordship is universally allowed to poffefs a very large portion in most parts of litera- ture ; and ...
... such a weight of business and oppofition ; even your justice , pru- dence , and magnanimity , will shine less bright without it . Your lordship is universally allowed to poffefs a very large portion in most parts of litera- ture ; and ...
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... such a caution neceffary in treatises offered to the learned world , it will be fure at least as proper in fermons , where the meanest hearer is fuppofed to be con- cerned , and where very often a lady's chambermaid may be allowed to ...
... such a caution neceffary in treatises offered to the learned world , it will be fure at least as proper in fermons , where the meanest hearer is fuppofed to be con- cerned , and where very often a lady's chambermaid may be allowed to ...
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... Such were the Lord Bacon , the Earl of Strafford , Archbishop Laud in the reign of King Charles I. and others in our own times , whom I fhall not name ; but these , and many more , under different princes , and in different kingdoms ...
... Such were the Lord Bacon , the Earl of Strafford , Archbishop Laud in the reign of King Charles I. and others in our own times , whom I fhall not name ; but these , and many more , under different princes , and in different kingdoms ...
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Página 368 - He is without the sense of shame, or glory, as some men are without the sense of smelling ; and therefore, a good name to him, is no more than a precious ointment would be, to these.
Página 214 - The women look like angels, and would be more beautiful than the sun, were it not for little black spots that are apt to break out in their faces and sometimes rise in very odd figures.
Página 482 - 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 152 - I am ignorant of any one quality, that is amiable in a man, which is not equally so in a woman : I do not except even modesty and gentleness of nature. Nor do I know one vice or folly, which is not equally detestable in both.
Página 197 - 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 17 - I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever: therefore I advise him to consider of it, and settle his affairs in time.
Página 226 - This comedy likewise exposes, with great justice, that unnatural taste for Italian music among us, which is wholly unsuitable to our northern climate, and the genius of the people, whereby we are overrun with Italian effeminacy and Italian nonsense.
Página 327 - Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Página 97 - When a Man's Thoughts are clear, the properest Words will generally offer themselves first; and his own Judgment will direct him in what Order to place them, so as they may be best understood.
Página 196 - Exactly at eight the mother came up, and discovered, by the redness of her face, that supper was not far off. It was twice as large as the dinner, and my persecution doubled in proportion. I desired at my usual hour to go to my repose, and was conducted to my chamber by the gentleman, his lady, and the whole train of children. They importuned me to drink something before I went to bed ; and, upon my refusing...