A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Uiversal Improvement of Mankind...J.Nutt, 1705 - 322 pages |
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... against a Friend of Four Governour ( from whom , alas ! he must therefore look for little Favour ) in a moft gentlemanly Style , adorned with utmost Politeness and Civi- lity ; replete with Discoveries equally va- luable for their ...
... against a Friend of Four Governour ( from whom , alas ! he must therefore look for little Favour ) in a moft gentlemanly Style , adorned with utmost Politeness and Civi- lity ; replete with Discoveries equally va- luable for their ...
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... against the Multitude of Writers , whereof the whole Multitude of Writers most reasonably complains . I am juft come from perufing fome hundreds of Pre- faces , wherein the Authors do at the very beginning addrefs the gentle Reader con ...
... against the Multitude of Writers , whereof the whole Multitude of Writers most reasonably complains . I am juft come from perufing fome hundreds of Pre- faces , wherein the Authors do at the very beginning addrefs the gentle Reader con ...
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... against this Objection . First : I am far from granting the Number of Writers , a Nuifance to our Nation , ha- ving ftrenuously maintained the contrary in feveral Parts of the following Difcourfe , Secondly I do not well understand the ...
... against this Objection . First : I am far from granting the Number of Writers , a Nuifance to our Nation , ha- ving ftrenuously maintained the contrary in feveral Parts of the following Difcourfe , Secondly I do not well understand the ...
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... against Foppery and For- nication , and fomething elfe Against Pride , and Diffimulation , and Bribery , at White - Hall : You may expofe Rapins and Injuftice in the Inns of Court Chap- pel ; : pel And in a City Pulpit be as fierce 28 ...
... against Foppery and For- nication , and fomething elfe Against Pride , and Diffimulation , and Bribery , at White - Hall : You may expofe Rapins and Injuftice in the Inns of Court Chap- pel ; : pel And in a City Pulpit be as fierce 28 ...
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... against Avarice , Hypo- crifie and Extortion . ' Tis but a Ball bandied to and fro , and every Man car- ries a Racket about Him to ftrike it from himself among the reft of the Com- pany . But on the other fide , whoever fhould mistake ...
... against Avarice , Hypo- crifie and Extortion . ' Tis but a Ball bandied to and fro , and every Man car- ries a Racket about Him to ftrike it from himself among the reft of the Com- pany . But on the other fide , whoever fhould mistake ...
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Page 59 - 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 139 - Thus physicians discover the state of the whole body, by consulting only what comes from behind. Thus men catch knowledge, by throwing their wit on the posteriors of a book, as boys do sparrows with flinging salt upon their tails.
Page 248 - ... question comes all to this; whether is the nobler being of the two, that which, by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride, feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all but flybane and a cobweb; or that which, by a universal range, with long search, much study, true judgment, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax.
Page 243 - In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below, when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a...
Page 247 - So that, in short, the question comes all to this ; whether is the nobler being of the two, that which, by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride...
Page 154 - ... of what is most perfect, finished, and exalted; till, having soared out of his own reach and sight...
Page 175 - And he whose fortunes and dispositions have placed him in a convenient station to enjoy the fruits of this noble art ; he that can, with Epicurus, content his ideas with the films and images that fly off...
Page 250 - As for us the ancients, we are content, with the bee, to pretend to nothing of our own beyond our wings and our voice : that is to say, our flights and our language.
Page 8 - Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
Page 26 - ... all the virtues that have been ever in mankind, are to be counted upon a few fingers ; but their follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap.