The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 pages |
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Page iii
... sense and penetration , his public spirit , and his charities , emi- nent and estimable in a very high degree : by his pecu- liar and amazing genius for wit and ridicule , the wonder of the age in which he lived ; by his caprices and ...
... sense and penetration , his public spirit , and his charities , emi- nent and estimable in a very high degree : by his pecu- liar and amazing genius for wit and ridicule , the wonder of the age in which he lived ; by his caprices and ...
Page xiii
... sense of his condition * . The sacrifice of the future to the present , whether it be a folly or a fault , is seldom unpunished ; and Swift soon found himself in the fitua- tion of a man who had burned his bed to warm his hands ; for ...
... sense of his condition * . The sacrifice of the future to the present , whether it be a folly or a fault , is seldom unpunished ; and Swift soon found himself in the fitua- tion of a man who had burned his bed to warm his hands ; for ...
Page xxi
... sense of truth or honour , he faid not a word to the King . † What then was to be done ? Honour , or , to use a properer word , pride hindered him from staying long in a state of servility and contempt . Orrery , let . 3 . Here was ...
... sense of truth or honour , he faid not a word to the King . † What then was to be done ? Honour , or , to use a properer word , pride hindered him from staying long in a state of servility and contempt . Orrery , let . 3 . Here was ...
Page liii
... sense of his mortality , and feels the force of a truth to which he has consented merely from custom , without confider- ing its certainty or importance . This time seldom hap- pens in the chearful fimplicity of infancy , or in the ...
... sense of his mortality , and feels the force of a truth to which he has consented merely from custom , without confider- ing its certainty or importance . This time seldom hap- pens in the chearful fimplicity of infancy , or in the ...
Page lxi
... sense , to aggravate folly into vice , and distress into infamy , have not much exalted their own character , or strengthened their claim to the candour of others . If Vanessa , by her fondness for the gaieties of life , encou- raged by ...
... sense , to aggravate folly into vice , and distress into infamy , have not much exalted their own character , or strengthened their claim to the candour of others . If Vanessa , by her fondness for the gaieties of life , encou- raged by ...
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Page 260 - But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Page 259 - And by chance there came down a certain priest that way ; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.
Page 259 - ... .And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him ; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again I will repay thee.
Page 259 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Page 105 - These never examine farther than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell, or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies ; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate that they are not of the same consistence quite through.
Page 105 - Now, I take all this to be the last degree of perverting nature; one of whose eternal laws it is, to put her best furniture forward. And therefore, in order to save the charges of all such expensive anatomy for the time to come, I do here think fit to inform the reader, that in such conclusions as these, reason is certainly in the right, and that in most corporeal beings, which have fallen under my...
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Page lxxxv - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.