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 8
... wise nations , and particularly of the Greeks and Romans , in establishing their colonies , by which name Ireland is very absurdly called . Under these distractions the conquerors always seized what lands they could with little ceremo ...
... wise nations , and particularly of the Greeks and Romans , in establishing their colonies , by which name Ireland is very absurdly called . Under these distractions the conquerors always seized what lands they could with little ceremo ...
Strana 20
... wise perhaps consider , that the gentry of this kingdom differ from all others upon earth , being less capable of employments in their own country , than any others who come from abroad ; and that most of them have little expectation of ...
... wise perhaps consider , that the gentry of this kingdom differ from all others upon earth , being less capable of employments in their own country , than any others who come from abroad ; and that most of them have little expectation of ...
Strana 22
... wise men , that before these bills pass both houses , they should be sent back to England , with the following clauses inserted : First , that whereas there may be about a dozen double bishoprics in Ireland , those bishoprics should be ...
... wise men , that before these bills pass both houses , they should be sent back to England , with the following clauses inserted : First , that whereas there may be about a dozen double bishoprics in Ireland , those bishoprics should be ...
Strana 59
... wise , considering their industry and our supine- ness , but that they may , in a very few years , grow to a majority in the house of commons , and con- sequently make themselves the national religion , and have a fair pretence to ...
... wise , considering their industry and our supine- ness , but that they may , in a very few years , grow to a majority in the house of commons , and con- sequently make themselves the national religion , and have a fair pretence to ...
Strana 88
... wise queen , as well as by her two successors . However , their numbers , as well as their insolence and perverseness , so far increased , that soon after the death of king James the First , many instances of their petulancy and ...
... wise queen , as well as by her two successors . However , their numbers , as well as their insolence and perverseness , so far increased , that soon after the death of king James the First , many instances of their petulancy and ...
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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...