 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...coarser coat; and whereof, to a judicious palate, the maggots arc the best: it is a sack-posset, wherein the deeper you go, you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom...because it is attended with an egg: but then lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...whereof, to a judicious palate, the maggots are the best : it is a sack-posset, wherein the deeper yon go, you will .] find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen,...because it is attended with an egg: but then lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose .with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 250 pages
...consider, because it is attended with an egg: but then, lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. XXI. A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK.* This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1807 - 498 pages
...deeper you go you will Jind it the sweeter. But then, lastly, 'tis a nut, which, unltsi you chusc witli judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. ROBERTSON. Tli is great emperor, in the plenitude of his power, and in possession of all the liouors... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 406 pages
...coat, and whereof, to a judicious palate, " the maggots are the best: it is a sack posset, " wherein the deeper you go, you will find it the " sweeter....cackling " we must value and consider, because it is at" tended with an egg. But then, lastly, wisdom " is a nut, which, unless you choose with judg" ment,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1811 - 390 pages
...coarser coat; and whereof, to a judicious palate, the maggots are the best : It is a sink-posset, wherein the deeper you go, you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom...whose cackling we must value and consider, because is is attended with an egg. But then, lastlv, it is a nut, which, unless you chuse with judgment, may... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1812 - 250 pages
...coat ; and whereof, to a judicious palate, the maggots are the best : it is a sack-posset, wherein the deeper you go, you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom...because it is attended with an egg : but then, lastly, it is a nut which) unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 446 pages
...coat ; and whereof, to a judicious palate, the maggots are the best : it is a sack-posset, Avherein the deeper you go, you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom...because it is attended with an egg : but then lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgement, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 442 pages
...coat ; and whereof, to a judicious palate, the maggots are the best : it is a sack-posset, wherein the deeper you go, you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom...because it is attended with an egg : but then lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgement, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 pages
...coat ; and whereof, to a judicious palate, the maggots are the best : it is a sack-posset, wherein the deeper you go, you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom...because it is attended with an egg : but then lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgement, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing... | |
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Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But then, lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth and pay you with nothing but a worm. 
