The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essaysA. Constable, 1814 |
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Strana 11
... present scheme of a bill for obliging the clergy to residence , now or lately in the privy council , I know no more of the particulars than what has been told me by several clergymen of distinction ; who say , that a petition in the ...
... present scheme of a bill for obliging the clergy to residence , now or lately in the privy council , I know no more of the particulars than what has been told me by several clergymen of distinction ; who say , that a petition in the ...
Strana 17
... present distresses of the kingdom ( which inevitably without a miracle must increase for ever ) there are not ten country cler- gymen in Ireland , reputed to possess a parish of 1001. per annum , who for some years past have actually ...
... present distresses of the kingdom ( which inevitably without a miracle must increase for ever ) there are not ten country cler- gymen in Ireland , reputed to possess a parish of 1001. per annum , who for some years past have actually ...
Strana 22
... present set of clergy goes off , be raised an army of ecclesiastical militants , able enough for any kind of service , except that of the altar . I am indeed in some concern about a fund for building a thousand or two churches , wherein ...
... present set of clergy goes off , be raised an army of ecclesiastical militants , able enough for any kind of service , except that of the altar . I am indeed in some concern about a fund for building a thousand or two churches , wherein ...
Strana 24
... present case the whole body of the clergy is , as themselves apprehend , determi- ned to utter ruin , without once expecting or ask- ing their opinion ; and this by a scheme contri- ved only by one part of the convocation , while the ...
... present case the whole body of the clergy is , as themselves apprehend , determi- ned to utter ruin , without once expecting or ask- ing their opinion ; and this by a scheme contri- ved only by one part of the convocation , while the ...
Strana 29
... present house of com- * In 1733 , a bill was presented in the Irish House of Commons for encouraging the growth of flax , by which ( in imitation of a similar regulation in England ) it was provided , that the tithe upon that production ...
... present house of com- * In 1733 , a bill was presented in the Irish House of Commons for encouraging the growth of flax , by which ( in imitation of a similar regulation in England ) it was provided , that the tithe upon that production ...
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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.