The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ; with a Memoir of the Author, Volume 2Bohn, 1850 |
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... appears in the best light , because they do honour to his heart , as well as to his head ; furnishing some additional ... appear a monster of despotism and fraud , that the halfpence were deficient in weight and goodness , and that the ...
... appears in the best light , because they do honour to his heart , as well as to his head ; furnishing some additional ... appear a monster of despotism and fraud , that the halfpence were deficient in weight and goodness , and that the ...
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... appears that both halfpence and farthings , when heated red - hot , spread thin under the hammer without cracking ; that the of which Mr. Wood's coinage is made is of the same goodness and value with the copper of which the copper money ...
... appears that both halfpence and farthings , when heated red - hot , spread thin under the hammer without cracking ; that the of which Mr. Wood's coinage is made is of the same goodness and value with the copper of which the copper money ...
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... appear to have been any misrepresentation of the state of Ireland in this respect . In the second address from the ... appearing no failure , non - performance , or breach of covenants , on the part of the patentee , the lords of the ...
... appear to have been any misrepresentation of the state of Ireland in this respect . In the second address from the ... appearing no failure , non - performance , or breach of covenants , on the part of the patentee , the lords of the ...
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... appears that both halfpence and farthings , when heated red - hot , spread thin under the hammer without cracking ; that the copper of which Mr. Wood's coinage is made is of the same goodness and value with the copper of which the ...
... appears that both halfpence and farthings , when heated red - hot , spread thin under the hammer without cracking ; that the copper of which Mr. Wood's coinage is made is of the same goodness and value with the copper of which the ...
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... appear very hard , to say no worse . For it will be impossible to find the author , unless he will please to discover himself ; although I wonder he ever concealed his name ; but I suppose what he did at first out of modesty , he ...
... appear very hard , to say no worse . For it will be impossible to find the author , unless he will please to discover himself ; although I wonder he ever concealed his name ; but I suppose what he did at first out of modesty , he ...
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Page 88 - I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.
Page 88 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends ; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Page 140 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Page 88 - That the remaining hundred, thousand may at a year old be offered in sale to the persons of quality, and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment...
Page 80 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded: but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 88 - I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children, in the arms or on the backs or at the heels of their mothers and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance...
Page 88 - 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 88 - Catholic countries about nine months after Lent, than at any other season; therefore reckoning a year after Lent, the markets will be more glutted than usual, because the number of Popish infants, is at least three to one in this kingdom, and therefore it will have one other collateral advantage by lessening the number of Papists among us.
Page 89 - And as to the young labourers they are now in almost as hopeful a condition; they cannot get work, and consequently pine away for want of nourishment, to a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it; and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come.
Page 152 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.