The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Zväzok 5J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
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Strana 6
... tell my criticks and witlings , that they can no more judge of this , than a man that is born blind , can have any true idea of colours . I have always observed , that your empty vessels sound loudest : I value their lashes as little as ...
... tell my criticks and witlings , that they can no more judge of this , than a man that is born blind , can have any true idea of colours . I have always observed , that your empty vessels sound loudest : I value their lashes as little as ...
Strana 12
... tell them ; for there we find at the end of the year , that no month passes without the death of some person of note ; and it would be hard , if it should be otherwise , when there are at least two thousand persons of note in this ...
... tell them ; for there we find at the end of the year , that no month passes without the death of some person of note ; and it would be hard , if it should be otherwise , when there are at least two thousand persons of note in this ...
Strana 14
... tell the world , that I lay the whole credit of my art upon the truth of these predictions ; and I will be content , that Partridge , and the rest of his clan , may hoot me for a cheat and impostor , if I fail in any single particular ...
... tell the world , that I lay the whole credit of my art upon the truth of these predictions ; and I will be content , that Partridge , and the rest of his clan , may hoot me for a cheat and impostor , if I fail in any single particular ...
Strana 33
... tell me freely and ingenuously , whether the pre- dictions Mr. Bickerstaff had published relating to his death , had not too much affected and worked on his imagination . He confessed , he had often had it in his head , but never with ...
... tell me freely and ingenuously , whether the pre- dictions Mr. Bickerstaff had published relating to his death , had not too much affected and worked on his imagination . He confessed , he had often had it in his head , but never with ...
Strana 34
... tell me , what reason he had to be convinced of Mr. Bickerstaff's ignorance . He replied , I am a poor ignorant fellow , bred to a mean trade , yet I have sense enough to know , that all pretences of fore- telling by astrology are ...
... tell me , what reason he had to be convinced of Mr. Bickerstaff's ignorance . He replied , I am a poor ignorant fellow , bred to a mean trade , yet I have sense enough to know , that all pretences of fore- telling by astrology are ...
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