The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Zväzok 91824 |
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Strana 11
... able to consult the author himself about his meaning , for commentators are a sect that has little share in my esteem : your elaborate writings have , among many others , this advantage , that their author is still alive , and ready ...
... able to consult the author himself about his meaning , for commentators are a sect that has little share in my esteem : your elaborate writings have , among many others , this advantage , that their author is still alive , and ready ...
Strana 15
... able to arrive at such a pitch of perfection , as to be above the laws of matter and motion ; laws which are considerably enforced by the principles usually imbibed in nurseries and boarding - schools . To remedy this evil , she has ...
... able to arrive at such a pitch of perfection , as to be above the laws of matter and motion ; laws which are considerably enforced by the principles usually imbibed in nurseries and boarding - schools . To remedy this evil , she has ...
Strana 19
... able , it is not possible that non- sense should have so many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congregations , for no reason in the world , but because it is spoken extempore ; for ordinary minds are wholly governed by their ...
... able , it is not possible that non- sense should have so many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congregations , for no reason in the world , but because it is spoken extempore ; for ordinary minds are wholly governed by their ...
Strana 28
... able even to make a good orator of a pair of bellows . He lately exhibited a specimen of his skill in this way , of which I was in- formed by the worthy gentlemen then present ; who were at once delighted and amazed to hear an instru ...
... able even to make a good orator of a pair of bellows . He lately exhibited a specimen of his skill in this way , of which I was in- formed by the worthy gentlemen then present ; who were at once delighted and amazed to hear an instru ...
Strana 35
... able to recover . We were now advanced very high , and observed that all the different paths , which ran about the sides of the mountain , began to meet in two great roads ; which insensibly gathered the whole multitude of travellers ...
... able to recover . We were now advanced very high , and observed that all the different paths , which ran about the sides of the mountain , began to meet in two great roads ; which insensibly gathered the whole multitude of travellers ...
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Strana 301 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Strana 119 - I sighed and said within myself, surely mortal man is a broom-stick; nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, till the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk.
Strana 295 - Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Strana 221 - The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.
Strana 348 - But every single character in Shakespeare is as much an individual, as those in life itself; it is as impossible to find any two alike; and such as from their relation or affinity in any respect appear most to be twins, will upon comparison be found remarkably distinct.
Strana 275 - ... graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection.
Strana 348 - ... had all the speeches been printed without the very names of the persons, I believe one might have applied them with certainty to every speaker.
Strana 237 - Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill-manners : without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or of what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
Strana 135 - For some centuries, there was a constant intercourse between France and England, by the dominions we possessed there, and the conquests we made.
Strana 119 - THIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest : it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs : but now, in...