The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Zväzok 91814 |
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Strana 21
... learning is much of a size with his birth and education ; no more of either , than what a poor hungry servitor can be expected to bring with him from his college . It would be tedious to show the reverse of all this , in our distant ...
... learning is much of a size with his birth and education ; no more of either , than what a poor hungry servitor can be expected to bring with him from his college . It would be tedious to show the reverse of all this , in our distant ...
Strana 149
... learning ought to have placed them above such scandalous imposition ; and believed in by others , whose unquestioned talents renders their credulity almost miraculous . Among the latter we may rank Dryden , and among the former Ashmole ...
... learning ought to have placed them above such scandalous imposition ; and believed in by others , whose unquestioned talents renders their credulity almost miraculous . Among the latter we may rank Dryden , and among the former Ashmole ...
Strana 157
... learning : and on the 23d an eminent goldsmith in Lombard- street . I could mention others , both at home and abroad , if I did not consider such events of very little use or instruction to the reader , or to the world . As to public ...
... learning : and on the 23d an eminent goldsmith in Lombard- street . I could mention others , both at home and abroad , if I did not consider such events of very little use or instruction to the reader , or to the world . As to public ...
Strana 164
... learning , although the piece seems hastily written in a sudden frolick , with the scornful thought of the pleasure he will have , in putting this great town into a wonderment about nothing : nor do I doubt but he , and his friends in ...
... learning , although the piece seems hastily written in a sudden frolick , with the scornful thought of the pleasure he will have , in putting this great town into a wonderment about nothing : nor do I doubt but he , and his friends in ...
Strana 185
... learning designed in these realms and through my sides there is a wound given to all the protestant almanack - makers in the universe . VIVAT REGINA . A VINDICATION OF ISAAC BICKERSTAFF , Esq . AGAINST WHAT BICKERSTAFF DETECTED . 185.
... learning designed in these realms and through my sides there is a wound given to all the protestant almanack - makers in the universe . VIVAT REGINA . A VINDICATION OF ISAAC BICKERSTAFF , Esq . AGAINST WHAT BICKERSTAFF DETECTED . 185.
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Strana 441 - Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves ; in women, from the contrary.
Strana 491 - ... 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. . . . Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation.
Strana 156 - I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever: therefore I advise him to consider of it, and settle his affairs in time.
Strana 329 - 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 vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk...
Strana 436 - The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable ; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Strana 243 - THE following letter has laid before me many great and manifest evils in the world of letters, which I had overlooked ; but they open to me a very busy scene, and it will require no small care and application to amend errors which are become so universal. The affectation of politeness is exposed in this epistle with a great deal of wit and discernment; so that whatever discourses I may fall into hereafter upon the subjects the writer treats of, I shall at present lay the matter before the world,...
Strana 441 - Kings are commonly said to have long hands; I wish they had as long ears. Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth, are said to discover prodigious parts and wit, to speak things that surprise and astonish: strange, so many hopeful princes, and so many shameful kings! If they happen to die young, they would have been prodigies of wisdom and virtue: if they live, they are often prodigies indeed, but of another sort.
Strana 107 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. ~] Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Strana 329 - Surely mortal man is a broomstick ! 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, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...
Strana 283 - As for the women of the country, not being able to talk with them, we could only make our remarks upon them at a distance. They let the hair of their heads grow to a great length ; but as the...