A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Uiversal Improvement of Mankind...J.Nutt, 1705 - 322 pages |
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... Discovering , and Readiness in Favouring deferving Men ; with forty other common Topicks ; I confess , I have neither Confci- ence nor Countenance to do it . Becaufe , there is no Virtue , either of a Publick or Private Life , which ...
... Discovering , and Readiness in Favouring deferving Men ; with forty other common Topicks ; I confess , I have neither Confci- ence nor Countenance to do it . Becaufe , there is no Virtue , either of a Publick or Private Life , which ...
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... discover , whatever hath been written fince upon that Difpute , to be little more than Repetition . An Abstract of this Trea- tife hath been lately published by a wor- thy Member of our Society . THESE Notices may ferve to give the ...
... discover , whatever hath been written fince upon that Difpute , to be little more than Repetition . An Abstract of this Trea- tife hath been lately published by a wor- thy Member of our Society . THESE Notices may ferve to give the ...
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... discover the least Direction about the Structure of that useful Inftrument a Save - all . For want of which , if the Moderns had not lent their Affiftance , we might yet have wandred in the Dark . But I have ftill behind , a Fault far ...
... discover the least Direction about the Structure of that useful Inftrument a Save - all . For want of which , if the Moderns had not lent their Affiftance , we might yet have wandred in the Dark . But I have ftill behind , a Fault far ...
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... discover feveral Handles , whereof the Scaliger's . Senfes afford one apiece , be- fide a great Number that are fcrew'd to the Paffions , and some few ri- veted to the Intellect . Among these last , Curiofity is one , and of all others ...
... discover feveral Handles , whereof the Scaliger's . Senfes afford one apiece , be- fide a great Number that are fcrew'd to the Paffions , and some few ri- veted to the Intellect . Among these last , Curiofity is one , and of all others ...
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... this Disappointment , ( to discover a Secret ) I must own , gave me the first Hint of fetting up for an Author ; and , I have fince found among fome particular Friends , 44 Friends , that it is become a very general 220 ATALE.
... this Disappointment , ( to discover a Secret ) I must own , gave me the first Hint of fetting up for an Author ; and , I have fince found among fome particular Friends , 44 Friends , that it is become a very general 220 ATALE.
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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.
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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.