The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essaysA. Constable, 1814 |
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עמוד 6
... opinion , both their lordships , and the many defenders they bring over , may justly claim the merit of missionaries sent to convert a nation from heresy and heathenism . Before I proceed farther , it may be proper to relate some ...
... opinion , both their lordships , and the many defenders they bring over , may justly claim the merit of missionaries sent to convert a nation from heresy and heathenism . Before I proceed farther , it may be proper to relate some ...
עמוד 11
... opinion , that a real unfalca- ted revenue of six hundred pounds a year , is a sufficient income for a country dean in this king- dom ; and since the rents consist wholly of tithes , two parishes , to the amount of that value , should ...
... opinion , that a real unfalca- ted revenue of six hundred pounds a year , is a sufficient income for a country dean in this king- dom ; and since the rents consist wholly of tithes , two parishes , to the amount of that value , should ...
עמוד 22
... opinion of many wise men , that before these bills pass both houses , they should be sent back to England , with the following clauses inserted : First , that whereas there may be about a dozen double bishoprics in Ireland , those ...
... opinion of many wise men , that before these bills pass both houses , they should be sent back to England , with the following clauses inserted : First , that whereas there may be about a dozen double bishoprics in Ireland , those ...
עמוד 24
... opinion ; and this by a scheme contri- ved only by one part of the convocation , while the other part , which has been chosen in the usual forms , wants only the regal permission to assem- ble , and consult about the affairs of the ...
... opinion ; and this by a scheme contri- ved only by one part of the convocation , while the other part , which has been chosen in the usual forms , wants only the regal permission to assem- ble , and consult about the affairs of the ...
עמוד 25
... opinion of almost every clergyman in the kingdom , without distinction of party , taking in even those who are not likely to be sufferers , stands directly against them . If some livings in the north may be justly thought too large a ...
... opinion of almost every clergyman in the kingdom , without distinction of party , taking in even those who are not likely to be sufferers , stands directly against them . If some livings in the north may be justly thought too large a ...
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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.