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... treatises written expressly against it ; but not one syllable in its defence . The greatest part of it finished in 1696 , eight years before it was published . The author's intention when he began it . No irreligious or immoral opinion ...
... treatises written expressly against it ; but not one syllable in its defence . The greatest part of it finished in 1696 , eight years before it was published . The author's intention when he began it . No irreligious or immoral opinion ...
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... treatise , the learned pro- fessors in either faculty would have been more liberal than the clergy . The passages which appear most liable to objection are parodies . The author entirely innocent of any intention of glancing at those ...
... treatise , the learned pro- fessors in either faculty would have been more liberal than the clergy . The passages which appear most liable to objection are parodies . The author entirely innocent of any intention of glancing at those ...
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... be favourably explained , when not understood ; and to praise himself in the modern way . This Our treatise without satire ; and why . Fame sooner gotten ANALYTICAL TABLE . 5 The Bookseller to the Reader, Dedication to Lord Somers,
... be favourably explained , when not understood ; and to praise himself in the modern way . This Our treatise without satire ; and why . Fame sooner gotten ANALYTICAL TABLE . 5 The Bookseller to the Reader, Dedication to Lord Somers,
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Jonathan Swift Walter Scott. treatise without satire ; and why . Fame sooner gotten by satire than panegyric ; the subject of the latter being narrow , and that of the former infinite . Difference between Athens and England , as to ...
Jonathan Swift Walter Scott. treatise without satire ; and why . Fame sooner gotten by satire than panegyric ; the subject of the latter being narrow , and that of the former infinite . Difference between Athens and England , as to ...
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... treatise to different sorts of Readers ; the superficial , the ignor- ant , and the learned . Proposal for making some ample Commentaries on this work ; and of the use- fulness of Commentaries for dark writers . Useful hints for the ...
... treatise to different sorts of Readers ; the superficial , the ignor- ant , and the learned . Proposal for making some ample Commentaries on this work ; and of the use- fulness of Commentaries for dark writers . Useful hints for the ...
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Page 81 - 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 80 - Look on this globe of earth, you will find it to be a very complete and fashionable dress. What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green? or the sea, but a waistcoat of water-tabby.
Page 221 - The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts you came to the centre, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defence.
Page 211 - Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
Page 236 - The brave ancient suddenly started, as one possessed with surprise and disappointment together: for the helmet was nine times too large for the head, which appeared situate far in the hinder part, even like the lady in a lobster, or like a mouse under a canopy of state, or like a shrivelled beau, from within the penthouse of a modern periwig : and the voice was suited to the visage, sounding weak and remote.
Page 113 - Dining one day at an alderman's in the city, Peter observed him expatiating, after the manner of his brethren, in the praises of his sirloin of beef. Beef, said the sage magistrate, is the king of meat ; beef comprehends in it the quintessence of partridge, and quail, and venison, and pheasant, and plum-pudding, and custard.
Page 222 - Beelzebub,'1) 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 rugged remnants of the cobweb.
Page 78 - 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 88 - ... and, according to the laudable custom, gave rise to that fashion. Upon which the brothers, consulting their father's will, to their great astonishment, found these words : Item, I charge and command my said three sons to wear no sort of silver fringe upon or about their said coats, &c., with a penalty, in case of disobedience, too long here to insert.
Page 159 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.