A tale of a tub: and The battle of the booksC.G. Kayser, 1831 - 149 pages |
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Page xii
... never so apt to cut those they are employed on , as when they have lost their edge . Besides , those whose teeth are too rotten to bite , are best of all others qualified to revenge that defect with their breath . I am not like other ...
... never so apt to cut those they are employed on , as when they have lost their edge . Besides , those whose teeth are too rotten to bite , are best of all others qualified to revenge that defect with their breath . I am not like other ...
Page xiii
... never resented for an offence by any , since every individual person makes bold to understand it of others , and very wisely removes his particular part of the bur- den upon the shoulders of the world , which are broad enough and able ...
... never resented for an offence by any , since every individual person makes bold to understand it of others , and very wisely removes his particular part of the bur- den upon the shoulders of the world , which are broad enough and able ...
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... never came there ; dined with lords they never saw ; whispered a duchess , and spoke never a word ; exposed the scrawls of their laundress for billet - doux of quality ; came ever just from court , and were never seen in it ; attended ...
... never came there ; dined with lords they never saw ; whispered a duchess , and spoke never a word ; exposed the scrawls of their laundress for billet - doux of quality ; came ever just from court , and were never seen in it ; attended ...
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... never to change his title or his nature ; that a grey 28 ) critic has been certainly a green2o ) one 3 ° ) , the perfections and acquirements of his age being only the improved talents of his youth ; like hemp , which some naturalists ...
... never to change his title or his nature ; that a grey 28 ) critic has been certainly a green2o ) one 3 ° ) , the perfections and acquirements of his age being only the improved talents of his youth ; like hemp , which some naturalists ...
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... never failed of success . The operation was performed by sparge- faction 16 ) , in a proper time of the moon . The patient who was to be pickled , if it were a house , would infallibly be preserv- ed from all spiders , rats , and ...
... never failed of success . The operation was performed by sparge- faction 16 ) , in a proper time of the moon . The patient who was to be pickled , if it were a house , would infallibly be preserv- ed from all spiders , rats , and ...
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Page 17 - As to his body there can be no dispute; but examine even the acquirements of his mind, you will find them all contribute in their order towards furnishing out an exact dress : to instance no more ; is not religion a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt, selflove a surtout, vanity a shirt, and conscience a pair of breeches, which, though a cover for lewdness as well ag nastinesa, is easily slipt down for the service of both...
Page 14 - Now, you are to understand that these coats have two virtues contained in them ; one is, that with good wearing they will last you fresh and sound as long as you live; the other is, that they will grow in the same proportion with your bodies, lengthening and widening of themselves, so as to be always fit.
Page 76 - Whether a tincture of malice in our natures makes us fond of furnishing every bright idea with its reverse; or whether reason, reflecting upon the sum of things, can, like the sun, serve only to enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half by necessity under shade and darkness...
Page 129 - Beelzebub,* with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects, whom his enemy had slain and devoured. However, he at length valiantly resolved to issue forth, and meet his fate. Meanwhile the bee had acquitted himself of his toils, and, posted securely at some distance, was employed in cleansing his wings, and disengaging them from the ragged remnants of the cobweb. By this time the spider was adventured out, when, beholding the chasms...
Page 9 - Tis a sack-posset, wherein the deeper you go, you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But then lastly, 'tis a nut, which unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.
Page 76 - ... how near the frontiers of height and depth border upon each other, with the same course and wing he falls down plum into the lowest bottom of things, like one who travels the east into the west, or like a strait line drawn by its own length into a circle.
Page 86 - For if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition, that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Page 15 - On their first appearance our three adventurers met with a very bad reception, and soon with great sagacity guessing out the reason, they quickly began to improve in the good qualities of the town: they writ, and rallied, and rhymed, and sung, and said, and said nothing; they drank, and fought, and whored, and slept, and swore, and took snuff...
Page 85 - Having therefore so narrowly passed through this intricate difficulty, the reader will, I am sure, agree with me in the conclusion, that if the moderns mean by madness only a disturbance or transposition of the brain, by force of certain vapours issuing up from the lower faculties, then has this madness been the parent of all those mighty revolutions that have happened in empire, in philosophy, and in religion.
Page 88 - That whatever Philosopher or Projector can find out an Art to sodder and patch up the Flaws and Imperfections of Nature, will deserve much better of Mankind, and teach us a more useful Science...