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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... as we have before ob- ferved , our Saviour prefcribeth to us to be not only harmless as doves , but wife as ferpents ; give me leave to prescribe to you fome fome rules , which the most ignorant per- fon may 12 ON FALSE WITNESS .
... as we have before ob- ferved , our Saviour prefcribeth to us to be not only harmless as doves , but wife as ferpents ; give me leave to prescribe to you fome fome rules , which the most ignorant per- fon may 12 ON FALSE WITNESS .
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Jonathan Swift. fome rules , which the most ignorant per- fon may follow for the conduct of his life with fafety in perilous times against false accufers . " 1 , Let me advife you to have nothing at all to do with that which is commonly ...
Jonathan Swift. fome rules , which the most ignorant per- fon may follow for the conduct of his life with fafety in perilous times against false accufers . " 1 , Let me advife you to have nothing at all to do with that which is commonly ...
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... most , if not all , poor men defire to be rich ; from whence it may be argued , that , in all appearance , the advantage lieth on the fide of wealth , because both parties agree in preferring it before poverty . But this reafoning will ...
... most , if not all , poor men defire to be rich ; from whence it may be argued , that , in all appearance , the advantage lieth on the fide of wealth , because both parties agree in preferring it before poverty . But this reafoning will ...
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... most impor- tunate , and who leaft deferve it . Thefe , indeed , are properly and juftly called the poor , whom it fhould be our fludy to find out and diftinguish , by making them par- take of our fuperfluity and abundance . But neither ...
... most impor- tunate , and who leaft deferve it . Thefe , indeed , are properly and juftly called the poor , whom it fhould be our fludy to find out and diftinguish , by making them par- take of our fuperfluity and abundance . But neither ...
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... most profligate of man- kind ; that they should be generally pro- cured by the most abominable means , and applied to the basest and most wick- ed uses ? This ought not to be conceived of a just a merciful , a wife , and al- mighty ...
... most profligate of man- kind ; that they should be generally pro- cured by the most abominable means , and applied to the basest and most wick- ed uses ? This ought not to be conceived of a just a merciful , a wife , and al- mighty ...
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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.