The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, כרך 14J. 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 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 57
עמוד 6
... live in the corner of a vast unfurnished house ; my family consists of a steward , a groom , a helper in the stable , a footman , and an old maid , who are all at board wages , and when I do not dine abroad , or make an entertain- ment ...
... live in the corner of a vast unfurnished house ; my family consists of a steward , a groom , a helper in the stable , a footman , and an old maid , who are all at board wages , and when I do not dine abroad , or make an entertain- ment ...
עמוד 8
... live , and I beg you will not be the man to manage the controversy against me . The church of Rome I judge ( from many modern symptoms , as well as ancient prophecies ) to be in a declining condi- tion * ; that of England will in a ...
... live , and I beg you will not be the man to manage the controversy against me . The church of Rome I judge ( from many modern symptoms , as well as ancient prophecies ) to be in a declining condi- tion * ; that of England will in a ...
עמוד 9
... live without dedications to men in power , whereby one great in- convenience will follow , that you and the world and posterity will be utterly ignorant of their virtues . For , either your brethren have miserably deceived us these ...
... live without dedications to men in power , whereby one great in- convenience will follow , that you and the world and posterity will be utterly ignorant of their virtues . For , either your brethren have miserably deceived us these ...
עמוד 25
... live , and I find him in all the conversations I keep , and in all the hearts in which I desire any share . We have never met these many years without mention of you . Beside my old acquaintance , I have found that all my friends of a ...
... live , and I find him in all the conversations I keep , and in all the hearts in which I desire any share . We have never met these many years without mention of you . Beside my old acquaintance , I have found that all my friends of a ...
עמוד 29
... live with , if a dull climate and duller company have not altered you extremely from what you were nine years ago . The hoarse voice of party was never heard in this quiet place ; gazettes and pamphlets are banished from it , and if the ...
... live with , if a dull climate and duller company have not altered you extremely from what you were nine years ago . The hoarse voice of party was never heard in this quiet place ; gazettes and pamphlets are banished from it , and if the ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 38 - I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: it is so with physicians, (I will not speak of my own trade,) soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
עמוד 110 - I of the religion of Erasmus, a Catholic ; so I live, so I shall die ; and hope one day to meet you, Bishop Atterbury, the younger Craggs, Dr.- Garth, Dean Berkley, and Mr.
עמוד 37 - I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions ; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labors is to vex the world rather than divert it ; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer you have ever seen, without reading.
עמוד 194 - The Whigs were ravished to see me, and would lay hold on me as a twig while they are drowning...
עמוד 97 - As to this country,* there have been three terrible years dearth of corn, and every place strewed with beggars ; but dearths are common in better climates, and our evils here lie much deeper. Imagine a nation the two thirds of...
עמוד 226 - There is a young fellow here in town we are all fond of, and about a year or two come from the university, one Harrison, a pretty little fellow, with a great deal of wit, good sense, and good nature...
עמוד 34 - ... above three or four contemporaries, and, if they could be united, would drive the world before them. I think it was so among the poets in the time of Augustus; but envy, and party, and pride, have hindered it among us.
עמוד 80 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
עמוד 33 - Your happiness is greater than your merit, in choosing your favourites so indifferently among either party; this you owe partly to your education, and partly to your genius employing you in an art in which faction has nothing to do, for I suppose Virgil and Horace are equally read by Whigs and Tories. You have no more to do with the constitution of church and state, than a Christian at Constantinople...
עמוד 72 - I am in my own farm," says he, "and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots: I have caught hold of the earth, to use a gardener's phrase, and neither my enemies nor my friends will find it an easy matter to transplant me again.