The Works of Jonathan Swift ...G. Bell and Sons, 1900 |
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Strana ix
... brought the nation to a calmer sense of its position , and tutored it to a juster appreciation of the men who were using it for selfish ends . Let us make every allowance for purely special pleadings ; for indulgence in personal feeling ...
... brought the nation to a calmer sense of its position , and tutored it to a juster appreciation of the men who were using it for selfish ends . Let us make every allowance for purely special pleadings ; for indulgence in personal feeling ...
Strana 17
... brought many persons of both sexes to an untimely fate ; and , what is more surprising , has , con- trary to her profession , with the same odours , revived others who had long since been drowned in the whirlpools of Lethe . Another of ...
... brought many persons of both sexes to an untimely fate ; and , what is more surprising , has , con- trary to her profession , with the same odours , revived others who had long since been drowned in the whirlpools of Lethe . Another of ...
Strana 30
... he is referred to as having " not only recovered several who stammered to a regular speech , but also brought the deaf and dumb to speak . " [ T. S. ] THE TATLER , NUMB . 71 . FROM TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30 " " CONTRIBUTIONS TO " THE TATLER '
... he is referred to as having " not only recovered several who stammered to a regular speech , but also brought the deaf and dumb to speak . " [ T. S. ] THE TATLER , NUMB . 71 . FROM TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30 " " CONTRIBUTIONS TO " THE TATLER '
Strana 38
... brought us up a dish of North - British collops . We liked our entertainment very well , only we observed the table - cloth , being not so fine as we could have wished , was North - British cloth : But the worst of it was , we were ...
... brought us up a dish of North - British collops . We liked our entertainment very well , only we observed the table - cloth , being not so fine as we could have wished , was North - British cloth : But the worst of it was , we were ...
Strana 39
... give your opinion upon it to , Sir , Your most humble servants , J. S. M. P. N. R. 1 We paid our scot ; i.e. , our share of the reckoning . [ T. S. ] NOTE . WITH NO . 271 Steele brought his venture CONTRIBUTIONS TO " THE TATLER ' 39.
... give your opinion upon it to , Sir , Your most humble servants , J. S. M. P. N. R. 1 We paid our scot ; i.e. , our share of the reckoning . [ T. S. ] NOTE . WITH NO . 271 Steele brought his venture CONTRIBUTIONS TO " THE TATLER ' 39.
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Strana 37 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Strana 91 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do in the name of all the people aforesaid most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities for ever...
Strana 307 - Supposing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the while this prodigious mass of sand was consuming by this slow method till there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after ? Or, supposing that you might be happy for ever after on condition you would be miserable till the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated at the rate of one sand in a thousand years : which of these two cases would you make your choice...
Strana 133 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Strana 131 - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Strana 3 - ... we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Strana 303 - WHEN the four Indian kings were in this country, about a twelvemonth ago, I often mixed with the rabble and followed them a whole day together, being wonderfully struck with the sight of every^ thing that is new or uncommon. I have, since their departure, employed a friend to make many inquiries of their landlord the upholsterer, relating to their manners and conversation,, as also concerning the remarks which they made in this country: for, next to the forming...
Strana 37 - Naunton, Osborn, Daniel the historian, and several others who writ later ; but being men of the court, and affecting the phrases then in fashion, they are often either not to be understood, or appear perfectly ridiculous. " What remedies are to be applied to these evils, I have not room to consider, having, I fear, already taken up most of your paper. Besides, I think it is our office only to represent abuses, and yours to redress them. I am, with great respect, SIR, " Yours,
Strana 304 - ... that is new or uncommon. I have, since their departure, employed a friend to make many inquiries of their landlord the upholsterer relating to their manners and conversation, as also concerning the remarks which they made in this country : for next to the forming a right notion of such strangers I should be desirous of learning what ideas they have conceived of us.
Strana 320 - I am glad to hear there are no weightier objections against that reverend body, planted in this city, and I wish there never may. But I should be very sorry that any of them should be so weak, as to imitate a court chaplain in England, who preached against the