The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ; with a Memoir of the Author, Volumen2Bohn, 1850 |
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... KNOWN HANDS • • • A PROJECT FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELI- GION AND THE REFORMATION OF MANNERS REMARKS UPON A BOOK ENTITLED RIGHTS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH " 175 " THE 181 A LETTER ON MR . M'CULLA'S PROJECT ABOUT HALFPENCE MR . COLLINS'S ...
... KNOWN HANDS • • • A PROJECT FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELI- GION AND THE REFORMATION OF MANNERS REMARKS UPON A BOOK ENTITLED RIGHTS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH " 175 " THE 181 A LETTER ON MR . M'CULLA'S PROJECT ABOUT HALFPENCE MR . COLLINS'S ...
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... known that they never once offered to stir in the matter ; so that the two houses of parliament , the privy - council , the great number of corporations , the lord mayor and aldermen of Dublin , the grand juries and principal gentlemen ...
... known that they never once offered to stir in the matter ; so that the two houses of parliament , the privy - council , the great number of corporations , the lord mayor and aldermen of Dublin , the grand juries and principal gentlemen ...
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... known that in this kingdom there are few employments to be given ; and if there were more it is as well known to whose share they must fall . But , because great numbers of you are altogether ig- norant of the affairs of your country ...
... known that in this kingdom there are few employments to be given ; and if there were more it is as well known to whose share they must fall . But , because great numbers of you are altogether ig- norant of the affairs of your country ...
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... known , but whose good offices and use- fulness are too great ever to be forgotten ; for it , by its nice diligence and skill , selected out things of the most noble and exquisite nature , by infusing and dispersing them to enliven and ...
... known , but whose good offices and use- fulness are too great ever to be forgotten ; for it , by its nice diligence and skill , selected out things of the most noble and exquisite nature , by infusing and dispersing them to enliven and ...
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... known , the party indict- prenticeship in London , and there set up for myself. every month till the meeting of the parliament , when our betters may consider of these matters , and therefore will not trouble you with any more on this ...
... known , the party indict- prenticeship in London , and there set up for myself. every month till the meeting of the parliament , when our betters may consider of these matters , and therefore will not trouble you with any more on this ...
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Página 88 - I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.
Página 88 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends ; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Página 140 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Página 88 - That the remaining hundred, thousand may at a year old be offered in sale to the persons of quality, and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment...
Página 80 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded: but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Página 88 - I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children, in the arms or on the backs or at the heels of their mothers and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance...
Página 88 - But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed beggars: it is of a much greater extent, and shall take in the whole number of infants at a certain age, who are born of parents in effect as little able to support them, as those who demand our charity in the streets.
Página 88 - Catholic countries about nine months after Lent, than at any other season; therefore reckoning a year after Lent, the markets will be more glutted than usual, because the number of Popish infants, is at least three to one in this kingdom, and therefore it will have one other collateral advantage by lessening the number of Papists among us.
Página 89 - And as to the young labourers they are now in almost as hopeful a condition; they cannot get work, and consequently pine away for want of nourishment, to a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it; and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come.
Página 152 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.