The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Volume 41824 |
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... Flanders . * But whether that be true or false , your lordship knows very well , that he resolved to give no quarter , whatever he might be content to take when he should find him- self at mercy . And the question was brought to this ...
... Flanders . * But whether that be true or false , your lordship knows very well , that he resolved to give no quarter , whatever he might be content to take when he should find him- self at mercy . And the question was brought to this ...
Page 312
... Flanders as his own , although under the name of his grandson , and sent great numbers of troops thither to fright them ; that he had seized the city and citadel of Liege ; had possessed himself of several places in the archbishopric of ...
... Flanders as his own , although under the name of his grandson , and sent great numbers of troops thither to fright them ; that he had seized the city and citadel of Liege ; had possessed himself of several places in the archbishopric of ...
Page 315
... Flanders , the seat of war , was on our side , and his majesty , a prince of great valour and con- duct , at the head of the whole confederate army ; yet we had no reason to boast of our success : how then should we be able to oppose ...
... Flanders , the seat of war , was on our side , and his majesty , a prince of great valour and con- duct , at the head of the whole confederate army ; yet we had no reason to boast of our success : how then should we be able to oppose ...
Page 318
... Flanders , might affect us very much in the consequences of it ; and the loss of Spain to the house of Austria , if it should be governed by French in- fluence , and French politics , might , in time , be very pernicious to our trade ...
... Flanders , might affect us very much in the consequences of it ; and the loss of Spain to the house of Austria , if it should be governed by French in- fluence , and French politics , might , in time , be very pernicious to our trade ...
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... what could we look for , in the ordinary course of things , but a Flanders war of at least twenty years longer ? Do they indeed think , a VOL . IV . X town taken for the Dutch is a sufficient recompense to OF THE ALLIES . 321.
... what could we look for , in the ordinary course of things , but a Flanders war of at least twenty years longer ? Do they indeed think , a VOL . IV . X town taken for the Dutch is a sufficient recompense to OF THE ALLIES . 321.
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Page 175 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
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Page 160 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Page 175 - Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. " Come ye," say they, " I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink ; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Page 364 - This pow'r has praise, that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet reason frowns on war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name. And mortgaged states their grandsires...
Page 151 - A Specimen of some errors and defects in the History of the Reformation of the Church of England, written by Gilbert Burnet, DD
Page 59 - I had rather be thought a good Englishman, than the best poet, or greatest scholar that ever wrote.
Page 8 - ... climacteric, without any visible effects of old age, either on his body or his mind, and in spite of a continual prostitution to those vices which usually wear out both. His behaviour is in all the forms of a young man at five-and-twenty. Whether he walks, or whistles, or swears, or talks bawdy, or calls names, he acquits himself in each, beyond a templar of three years standing.
Page 123 - Ihe places sacred to his worship !) to spoil for a time this beautiful and pleasing prospect, and give us in its stead, — I know not what. Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure.
Page 232 - The offence consisted in his having said, when the clergy were about to move a Tory address, "Those who have turned the world upside down are come hither also...