The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen1C. Bathurst, 1755 |
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... paffed but for the Conduct of the Allies , were little more than quotations from it , From this time till the year 1713 , he continued to exert himself with unwearied diligence in D.S. 156. the fervice of the miniftry , and while he was ...
... paffed but for the Conduct of the Allies , were little more than quotations from it , From this time till the year 1713 , he continued to exert himself with unwearied diligence in D.S. 156. the fervice of the miniftry , and while he was ...
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... paffed . Few of thofe who have been permitted to affoci- ate with perfons greatly fuperior in rank and for- tune , who have climbed in the retinue of power , and been diftinguished by reflected greatnefs , have been able to fuftain the ...
... paffed . Few of thofe who have been permitted to affoci- ate with perfons greatly fuperior in rank and for- tune , who have climbed in the retinue of power , and been diftinguished by reflected greatnefs , have been able to fuftain the ...
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... paffed along the streets . The author of the obfervations , J. R. 87 . on the contrary , affirms , that he was received by all ranks of men , not only with kindness , but ho- nour , the tories being then in full power , as well in ...
... paffed along the streets . The author of the obfervations , J. R. 87 . on the contrary , affirms , that he was received by all ranks of men , not only with kindness , but ho- nour , the tories being then in full power , as well in ...
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... paffed between them which Vanela directed to be published , with the poem , found that they contained nothing that could bring the least disgrace upon the dean ; her's , indeed , were full of paffionate declarations of her love ; his ...
... paffed between them which Vanela directed to be published , with the poem , found that they contained nothing that could bring the least disgrace upon the dean ; her's , indeed , were full of paffionate declarations of her love ; his ...
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... paffed unfcen or unobserved by your friends , your * enemies have at length brought to light . It is true , I fhould be very loth , the bright example of your lordship's virtues should be lost to after - ages , both for their fake and ...
... paffed unfcen or unobserved by your friends , your * enemies have at length brought to light . It is true , I fhould be very loth , the bright example of your lordship's virtues should be lost to after - ages , both for their fake and ...
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Página 173 - In the proportion that credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than curiosity, so far preferable is that wisdom which converses about the surface to that pretended philosophy which enters into the depth of things, and then comes gravely back with informations and discoveries that in the inside they are good for nothing.
Página 140 - Lords, learn their Titles exactly, and then brag of their Acquaintance. Or Secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer Method, to get a thorough Insight into the Index, by which the whole Book is governed and turned, like Fishes by the Tail. For, to enter the Palace of Learning at the great Gate, requires an Expence of Time and Forms; therefore Men of much Haste and little Ceremony, are content to get in by the Back-Door.
Página 24 - In the Attic commonwealth,* it was the privilege and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public...
Página 4 - Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
Página 245 - ... defence. In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below : when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a wandering bee, to whose curiosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he...
Página 57 - These postulata being admitted, it will follow in due course of reasoning that those beings, which the world calls improperly suits of clothes, are in reality the most refined species of animals ; or, to proceed higher, that they are rational creatures, or men.
Página 312 - Too intense a contemplation is not the business of flesh and blood; it must by the necessary course of things, in a little time let go its hold and fall into matter. Lovers, for the sake of celestial converse, are but another sort of Platonics who pretend to see stars and heaven in ladies...
Página 246 - I am glad," answered the bee, "to hear you grant at least that I am come honestly by my wings and my voice; for then, it seems, I am obliged to Heaven alone for my flights and my music; and Providence would never have bestowed on me two such gifts without designing them for the noblest ends.
Página 171 - ... whether things that have place in the imagination may not as properly be said to exist as those that are seated in the memory...
Página 45 - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.