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 22
... equally fa- mous . When the first table is filled , the next in renown must be seated at the second , and so on in like manner to the number of twenty ; as also in the same order at the third , which is to hold a hundred . At these ...
... equally fa- mous . When the first table is filled , the next in renown must be seated at the second , and so on in like manner to the number of twenty ; as also in the same order at the third , which is to hold a hundred . At these ...
Strana 103
... equally useful in the smaller , and may just keep us alive , until an English act of Parliament shall forbid it . I have been told , that among some of our poorest American colonies upon the continent , the people enjoy the liberty of ...
... equally useful in the smaller , and may just keep us alive , until an English act of Parliament shall forbid it . I have been told , that among some of our poorest American colonies upon the continent , the people enjoy the liberty of ...
Strana 118
... been offered against those Memoirs that were print- ed in the author's life - time , and which these now pub- lished may perhaps be equally liable to . First , as to the matter ; that the author speaks too much of 118 PREFACE TO.
... been offered against those Memoirs that were print- ed in the author's life - time , and which these now pub- lished may perhaps be equally liable to . First , as to the matter ; that the author speaks too much of 118 PREFACE TO.
Strana 119
... been offered against those Memoirs that were print- ed in the author's life - time , and which these now pub- lished may perhaps be equally liable to . First , as to the matter ; that the author speaks too much of 118 PREFACE TO.
... been offered against those Memoirs that were print- ed in the author's life - time , and which these now pub- lished may perhaps be equally liable to . First , as to the matter ; that the author speaks too much of 118 PREFACE TO.
Strana 177
... equally blameable ; I mean an impatience to interrupt others ; and the uneasiness of being interrupted our- selves . The two chief ends of conversation are to en- tertain and improve those we are among , or to receive those benefits ...
... equally blameable ; I mean an impatience to interrupt others ; and the uneasiness of being interrupted our- selves . The two chief ends of conversation are to en- tertain and improve those we are among , or to receive those benefits ...
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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...