The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author, Volume 5Derby, 1859 |
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... better times will not be content to go in their own country shifts , I wish they may go in rags . Let them vie with each other in the fineness of their native linen : their beauty and gentleness will as well appear , as if they were ...
... better times will not be content to go in their own country shifts , I wish they may go in rags . Let them vie with each other in the fineness of their native linen : their beauty and gentleness will as well appear , as if they were ...
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... better , I desire the author or authors will be pleased maturely to consider two points . First , as things now stand , how they will be able to find food and raiment for 100,000 useless mouths and backs . And secondly , there being a ...
... better , I desire the author or authors will be pleased maturely to consider two points . First , as things now stand , how they will be able to find food and raiment for 100,000 useless mouths and backs . And secondly , there being a ...
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... better expressed by gentlemen staying in their re- spective counties , influencing their dependants by their examples , saving their own wealth , and letting their neighbors profit by their necessary expenses , thereby keeping them from ...
... better expressed by gentlemen staying in their re- spective counties , influencing their dependants by their examples , saving their own wealth , and letting their neighbors profit by their necessary expenses , thereby keeping them from ...
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... better have imposed this task on some of our citizens of greater abilities . But perhaps , sir , such a letter as this may be , for the singularity of it , entertaining to you , who correspond with the politest and most learned men in ...
... better have imposed this task on some of our citizens of greater abilities . But perhaps , sir , such a letter as this may be , for the singularity of it , entertaining to you , who correspond with the politest and most learned men in ...
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... better than the coal which we pay so much ready money for , and so little to share in the kingdom . Now I may venture to say and affirm it to be the best coal in the world . Look at your prisons , behold the vast number of poor debtors ...
... better than the coal which we pay so much ready money for , and so little to share in the kingdom . Now I may venture to say and affirm it to be the best coal in the world . Look at your prisons , behold the vast number of poor debtors ...
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Page 183 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 17 - But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed beggars, it is of a much greater extent, and shall take in the whole number of infants at a certain age, who are born of parents in effect as little able to support them, as those who demand our charity in the streets.
Page 23 - ... would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable prospect of entailing the like or greater miseries upon...
Page 430 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united...
Page 229 - ... to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject. We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left?
Page 161 - 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 152 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 143 - 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 140 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility : for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 224 - It is likewise urged, that there are, by computation, in this kingdom, above ten thousand parsons, whose revenues, added to those of my lords the bishops, would suffice to maintain at least two hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure, and freethinking, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices ; who might be an ornament to the court and town...