The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essaysA. Constable, 1814 |
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עמוד 14
... matters have been for some time , and may probably remain , the fewer ordinations the better . The rest of their visible office consists , in the honour of attending parlia- ments and councils , and bestowing preferments in their own ...
... matters have been for some time , and may probably remain , the fewer ordinations the better . The rest of their visible office consists , in the honour of attending parlia- ments and councils , and bestowing preferments in their own ...
עמוד 24
... matter ; but I cannot find that the clergy lay much weight on this caution ; because they argue , that the very persons from whom these bills took their rise , will have the greatest share in the decision . I do not by any means ...
... matter ; but I cannot find that the clergy lay much weight on this caution ; because they argue , that the very persons from whom these bills took their rise , will have the greatest share in the decision . I do not by any means ...
עמוד 28
... matters , to the score of disaf- fection ; whereof I am at least as innocent as the loudest of my detractors . Dublin , Feb. 24. 1731-2 . SOME REASONS AGAINST THE BILL FOR SETTLING THE TITHE OF 28 CONSIDERATIONS , & c .
... matters , to the score of disaf- fection ; whereof I am at least as innocent as the loudest of my detractors . Dublin , Feb. 24. 1731-2 . SOME REASONS AGAINST THE BILL FOR SETTLING THE TITHE OF 28 CONSIDERATIONS , & c .
עמוד 47
... matter , as was natural , in a very different light , determi- ned to resist it to their uttermost power . Swift was at once the boldest and most zealous champion of their cause ; and the follow- ing letter , in which his high church ...
... matter , as was natural , in a very different light , determi- ned to resist it to their uttermost power . Swift was at once the boldest and most zealous champion of their cause ; and the follow- ing letter , in which his high church ...
עמוד 51
... matter purely national , that cannot possi- bly interfere with the trade and interest of Eng- land ; and though he himself appeared formerly the most zealous of all men , against the injustice of binding a nation by laws , to which they ...
... matter purely national , that cannot possi- bly interfere with the trade and interest of Eng- land ; and though he himself appeared formerly the most zealous of all men , against the injustice of binding a nation by laws , to which they ...
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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.