Selections from the prose writings of Jonathan Swift, with preface and notes by S. Lane-PooleKegan Paul & Company, 1884 - 284 pages |
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... method and accuracy , the standard text of Swift , and it has recently been luxuriously and only too faithfully reprinted without any diminution of its size . Nineteen volumes , with never a novel among them , or at best an allegorical ...
... method and accuracy , the standard text of Swift , and it has recently been luxuriously and only too faithfully reprinted without any diminution of its size . Nineteen volumes , with never a novel among them , or at best an allegorical ...
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... method is one of mechanical com- pression , unknown to distillers , but familiar to buyers of books , whereby each particle of the liquor is squeezed and shaken into half its natural size , with the loss too often of taste and colour ...
... method is one of mechanical com- pression , unknown to distillers , but familiar to buyers of books , whereby each particle of the liquor is squeezed and shaken into half its natural size , with the loss too often of taste and colour ...
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... methods of tyranny and destruction which your governor is pleased to practise upon this occasion . His inveterate malice is such to the writings of our age , that of several thousands produced yearly from this renowned city , before the ...
... methods of tyranny and destruction which your governor is pleased to practise upon this occasion . His inveterate malice is such to the writings of our age , that of several thousands produced yearly from this renowned city , before the ...
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... very transitory , have suffered much from inclemencies of air , especially in these north - west regions . Therefore , towards the just performance of this great work , there remain but three methods that I The Introduction.
... very transitory , have suffered much from inclemencies of air , especially in these north - west regions . Therefore , towards the just performance of this great work , there remain but three methods that I The Introduction.
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Jonathan Swift Stanley Lane- Poole. great work , there remain but three methods that I can think of ; whereof the ... method observed by many other philo- sophers and great clerks , whose chief art in division has been to grow fond of ...
Jonathan Swift Stanley Lane- Poole. great work , there remain but three methods that I can think of ; whereof the ... method observed by many other philo- sophers and great clerks , whose chief art in division has been to grow fond of ...
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Page 133 - We next went to the School of Languages, where three Professors sat in Consultation upon improving that of their own Country. The first Project was to shorten Discourse by cutting Polysyllables into one, and leaving out Verbs and Participles; because in Reality all things imaginable are but Nouns.
Page 229 - Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass the skin of which artificially dressed will make admirable gloves for ladies and summer boots for fine gentlemen. As to our city of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers, we may be assured, will not be wanting; although I rather recommend buying the children alive and dressing them hot from the knife as we do roasting pigs.
Page 230 - Psalmanazar, a native of the island Formosa, who came from thence to London above twenty years ago, and in conversation told my friend that in his country when any young person happened to be put to death, the executioner sold the carcass to persons of quality as a prime dainty; and that in his time the body of a plump girl of fifteen, who was crucified for an attempt to poison the emperor, was sold to his Imperial Majesty's prime minister of state, and other great mandarins of the court, in joints...
Page 220 - The remedy is wholly in your own hands ; and therefore I have digressed a little, in order to refresh and continue that spirit so seasonably raised among you ; and to let you see, that by the laws of GOD, of NATURE, of NATIONS, and of your COUNTRY, you ARE, and OUGHT to be, as FREE a people as your brethren in England.
Page 227 - ... children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, How this number shall be reared and provided for? which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture; we neither build houses (I mean in the country), nor cultivate land...
Page 230 - ... it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty; which, I confess, hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how well soever intended.
Page 89 - Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea. We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage at first was very prosperous. It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the northwest of Van Diemen's Land.
Page 235 - But before something of that kind shall be advanced in contradiction to my scheme and offering a better, I desire the author or authors will be pleased maturely to consider two -points: first, as things now stand, how they will be able to find food and raiment for...
Page 78 - ... to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject. We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left?
Page 126 - He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting, " it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.