The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen13W. Bowyer, C. Bathurst, W. Owen, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis, and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder and Company and B. Collins., 1768 - 464 páginas |
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... four the whole lump . Intereft will infallibly bias his judgment , although he be ever so firmly refolved to fay nothing but truth . He cannot ferve God and Mammon ; but as interest is his chief end , he will use the moft effectual ...
... four the whole lump . Intereft will infallibly bias his judgment , although he be ever so firmly refolved to fay nothing but truth . He cannot ferve God and Mammon ; but as interest is his chief end , he will use the moft effectual ...
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... four times the number of its inhabitants , fhould yet lie under the heavieft load of mifery and want , our ftreets crowded with beggars , fo many of our lower fort of tradefmen , labourers , Caufes of the wretched Condition , & c . 41 ...
... four times the number of its inhabitants , fhould yet lie under the heavieft load of mifery and want , our ftreets crowded with beggars , fo many of our lower fort of tradefmen , labourers , Caufes of the wretched Condition , & c . 41 ...
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... four hours at a play , where all vir- tue and religion are openly reviled ; and can they not watch one half hour to hear them defended ? is this to deal like a judge ( I mean like a good judge ) , to listen on one fide of the cause ...
... four hours at a play , where all vir- tue and religion are openly reviled ; and can they not watch one half hour to hear them defended ? is this to deal like a judge ( I mean like a good judge ) , to listen on one fide of the cause ...
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... four sprightly turns of this kind , that look as if he thought he had done wonders , and had put all the clergy in a ferment . Whereas , I do affure him , there are but two things wonderful in his book : Firft , how any man in a ...
... four sprightly turns of this kind , that look as if he thought he had done wonders , and had put all the clergy in a ferment . Whereas , I do affure him , there are but two things wonderful in his book : Firft , how any man in a ...
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... : Witness this writer , who hath published as fingular and abfurd notions as poffible , yet hath a mighty zeal to bring us over to them , & c . Page 1 of four- Page 292. Here are two pages rilous faction 158 REMARKS UPON A BOOK , & c .
... : Witness this writer , who hath published as fingular and abfurd notions as poffible , yet hath a mighty zeal to bring us over to them , & c . Page 1 of four- Page 292. Here are two pages rilous faction 158 REMARKS UPON A BOOK , & c .
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Página 357 - He seems to be but an ill dissembler, and an ill liar, although they are the two talents he most practises, and most values himself upon. The ends he has gained by lying, appear to be more owing to the frequency, than the art of them: his lies being sometimes detected in an hour, often in a day, and always in a week.
Página 343 - And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid : nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves.
Página 33 - from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor " riches, feed me with food convenient for me : left I be " full, and deny thee, and fay, Who is the Lord ? or left " I be poor, and fteal, and take the name of my God in " vain," On the fame thing is founded the advice of Solomon, with regard to the fin of fenfuality : Proverbs xxiii.
Página 354 - 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 282 - Christians, to keep the poor bairns out of danger. All this could never prevail on him to part with his beard; but yet, in compliance to his...
Página 64 - And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep : and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Página 355 - ... he is damnably mauled ;" and then, with the easiest transition in the world, ask about the weather, or. time of the day...
Página 335 - For, nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both, who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour? are not so much as tolerable.
Página 463 - ... if the wisest man would at any time utter his thoughts in the crude indigested manner as they come into his head, he would be looked upon as raving mad.
Página 415 - ... abstracts, abridgments, summaries, &c. which are admirable expedients for being very learned with little or no reading ; and have the same use with burning-glasses, to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.