The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essaysA. Constable, 1814 |
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Strana 3
... ecclesiastical preferments , which may perhaps be traced as much to personal disappointment as to any better cause . The bills were thrown out in the House of Commons . ON THE BILL FOR THE CLERGY RESIDING ON THEIR LIVINGS.
... ecclesiastical preferments , which may perhaps be traced as much to personal disappointment as to any better cause . The bills were thrown out in the House of Commons . ON THE BILL FOR THE CLERGY RESIDING ON THEIR LIVINGS.
Strana 6
... perhaps from the squire ; who , although he may sometimes be apt to treat his parson a little superciliously , will pro- bably be softened by a little humble demeanour . The vicar is likewise generally sure to find upon his admittance ...
... perhaps from the squire ; who , although he may sometimes be apt to treat his parson a little superciliously , will pro- bably be softened by a little humble demeanour . The vicar is likewise generally sure to find upon his admittance ...
Strana 7
... perhaps in his own village . No enter- tainment is expected by his visitor beyond a pot of ale , and a piece of cheese . He has every Sun- day the comfort of a full congregation , of plain , cleanly people of both sexes , well to pass ...
... perhaps in his own village . No enter- tainment is expected by his visitor beyond a pot of ale , and a piece of cheese . He has every Sun- day the comfort of a full congregation , of plain , cleanly people of both sexes , well to pass ...
Strana 10
... perhaps three worthy clergymen with decency ; provided the times mend , or that they were ho- nestly dealt with , which I confess is seldom the case . I shall name only one , and it is the deanery of Derry ; the revenue whereof , if the ...
... perhaps three worthy clergymen with decency ; provided the times mend , or that they were ho- nestly dealt with , which I confess is seldom the case . I shall name only one , and it is the deanery of Derry ; the revenue whereof , if the ...
Strana 19
... perhaps be inclined to conceive , that my lords the bishops enjoy as ample a power , both spiritual and temporal , as will fully suffice to answer every branch of their office ; that they want no laws to regulate the conduct of those ...
... perhaps be inclined to conceive , that my lords the bishops enjoy as ample a power , both spiritual and temporal , as will fully suffice to answer every branch of their office ; that they want no laws to regulate the conduct of those ...
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Strana 434 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Strana 492 - ... 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 330 - THE HONOURABLE ROBERT BOYLE'S MEDITATIONS. '""PHIS 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 282 - I could not observe any circumstance of devotion in their behaviour : there was, indeed, a man in black who was mounted above the rest, and seemed to utter something with a great deal of vehemence ; but as for those underneath him, instead of paying their worship to the deity of the place, they were most of them bowing and curtseying to one another, and a considerable number of them fast asleep.
Strana 247 - Rep, and many more, when we are already overloaded with monosyllables, which are the disgrace of our language. Thus we cram one syllable, and cut off the rest, as the owl fattened her mice after she had bit off their legs to prevent them from running away...
Strana 434 - The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former. Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation to posterity, let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
Strana 420 - I advise that your company at home should consist of men, rather than women. To say the truth, I never yet knew a tolerable woman to be fond of her own sex.
Strana 330 - 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 423 - As little Respect as I have for the Generality of your Sex, it hath sometimes moved me with Pity, to see the Lady of the House forced to withdraw, immediately after Dinner, and this in Families where there is not much Drinking; as if it were an established Maxim, that Women are incapable of all Conversation.
Strana 338 - This may be true in oratory ; but contemplation in other things, exceeds action. And therefore a wise man is never less alone, than when he is alone : Nunquam minus solus, quam cum solus.