The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essaysA. Constable, 1814 |
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עמוד 9
... equal to the best , sometimes affording the minister a good demesne , and some land to let . These wars and desolations in their natural con- sequences , were likewise the cause of another ef- fect , I mean that of uniting several ...
... equal to the best , sometimes affording the minister a good demesne , and some land to let . These wars and desolations in their natural con- sequences , were likewise the cause of another ef- fect , I mean that of uniting several ...
עמוד 15
... equals , probably their companions or their friends , and possibly as reasonable expect- ants . There is a known story of colonel Tidcomb , who , while he continued a subaltern officer , was every day complaining against the pride ...
... equals , probably their companions or their friends , and possibly as reasonable expect- ants . There is a known story of colonel Tidcomb , who , while he continued a subaltern officer , was every day complaining against the pride ...
עמוד 30
... equal gratitude to that honourable house for their justice and steadiness , as if the clergy alone were to receive the benefit . It must needs be therefore a great addition to the clergy's grief , that such an assembly as the present ...
... equal gratitude to that honourable house for their justice and steadiness , as if the clergy alone were to receive the benefit . It must needs be therefore a great addition to the clergy's grief , that such an assembly as the present ...
עמוד 31
... least afford it . If , as I am told , there be a tax of three thousand pounds a year paid by the public , for a farther encouragement to the said manufacture , are not the clergy equal sharers in the THE TITHE OF HEMP . 31.
... least afford it . If , as I am told , there be a tax of three thousand pounds a year paid by the public , for a farther encouragement to the said manufacture , are not the clergy equal sharers in the THE TITHE OF HEMP . 31.
עמוד 32
... equal foot with the proper- ties of other men ? They acquire their own small pittance , by at least as honest means , as their neighbours , the landlords , possess their estates ; and have been always supposed , except in rebel- lious ...
... equal foot with the proper- ties of other men ? They acquire their own small pittance , by at least as honest means , as their neighbours , the landlords , possess their estates ; and have been always supposed , except in rebel- lious ...
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עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.