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 13
... never takes from him anything , but he allows him something for it ; or else he blames him for things wherein he is not defective , as well as for matters wherein he is . This makes a weak man believe he is in jest in the whole . The ...
... never takes from him anything , but he allows him something for it ; or else he blames him for things wherein he is not defective , as well as for matters wherein he is . This makes a weak man believe he is in jest in the whole . The ...
Strana 15
... never dreamed of . And , to make your civility the more ac- complished , you have honoured him with the title of your kinsman , which , though derived by the left hand , he is not a little proud of . My brother , for such Oba- diah is ...
... never dreamed of . And , to make your civility the more ac- complished , you have honoured him with the title of your kinsman , which , though derived by the left hand , he is not a little proud of . My brother , for such Oba- diah is ...
Strana 19
... never attempts your passions , until he has con- vinced your reason . All the objections which he can form , are laid open and dispersed , before he uses the least vehemence in his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head , he very ...
... never attempts your passions , until he has con- vinced your reason . All the objections which he can form , are laid open and dispersed , before he uses the least vehemence in his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head , he very ...
Strana 25
... never mention them but with an exception . However , I believe I shall not give the world much trouble about filling my tables for those of evil fame ; for I have some thoughts of clapping up the sharpers there as fast as I can lay hold ...
... never mention them but with an exception . However , I believe I shall not give the world much trouble about filling my tables for those of evil fame ; for I have some thoughts of clapping up the sharpers there as fast as I can lay hold ...
Strana 45
... never be able to live many more campaigns . Spe- culations , operations , preliminaries , ambassadors , pali- sadoes , communications , circumvallations , battalions , as numerous as they are , if they attack us too frequently in our ...
... never be able to live many more campaigns . Spe- culations , operations , preliminaries , ambassadors , pali- sadoes , communications , circumvallations , battalions , as numerous as they are , if they attack us too frequently in our ...
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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...