The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, Volume 9

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J. Johnson, 1808

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Page 173 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel...
Page 172 - But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you : for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Page 142 - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 308 - My lord said; ** it was because they smelt carrion." A TREATISE ON GOOD MANNERS AND GOOD BREEDING*. vJOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
Page 253 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 139 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 192 - Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Page 139 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee : nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary...
Page 134 - ... be ready always to give an answer to every man, that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear.
Page 193 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

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