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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... turn their own farmers , as too many of them do already , run all into sheep where they can , keeping only such ... turns farmer and merchant himself , all the good money he gets from abroad he will hoard up to send for England , and ...
... turn their own farmers , as too many of them do already , run all into sheep where they can , keeping only such ... turns farmer and merchant himself , all the good money he gets from abroad he will hoard up to send for England , and ...
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... turn and air of a pamphlet ; as if it were a dispute between William Wood on the one part , and the lords - justices , privy- council , and both houses of parliament , on the other ; the design of it being to clear William Wood , and to ...
... turn and air of a pamphlet ; as if it were a dispute between William Wood on the one part , and the lords - justices , privy- council , and both houses of parliament , on the other ; the design of it being to clear William Wood , and to ...
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... turning my eyes towards it , I found arose from a crowd of people behind her throne . The cause it seems was this ... turn off hastily , and make towards the throne , where being arrived , after some preparations requisite , he pre ...
... turning my eyes towards it , I found arose from a crowd of people behind her throne . The cause it seems was this ... turn off hastily , and make towards the throne , where being arrived , after some preparations requisite , he pre ...
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... turn over a new leaf with him . Saddler . I'll pummel him . Glazier . I'll make the light shine through him . Grocer . I'll pepper him . Groom . I'll curry him . ' Pothecary . I'll pound him . 2nd Pothecary . I'll beat him to mummy ...
... turn over a new leaf with him . Saddler . I'll pummel him . Glazier . I'll make the light shine through him . Grocer . I'll pepper him . Groom . I'll curry him . ' Pothecary . I'll pound him . 2nd Pothecary . I'll beat him to mummy ...
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... turn her over carefully , and ' tis very probable you'll find she has been abused , at least in the sheets , if not in the setting forth of a new edition blotted in the impression . Sir , your humble servant , JANE BANKS . And now ...
... turn her over carefully , and ' tis very probable you'll find she has been abused , at least in the sheets , if not in the setting forth of a new edition blotted in the impression . Sir , your humble servant , JANE BANKS . And now ...
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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.