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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Page 43
... sure it was generally to their own advantage , and whatever they got was em- ployed to cultivate and increase their own estates ; and by that means enrich themselves and their country . As to the great number of rich absentees under the ...
... sure it was generally to their own advantage , and whatever they got was em- ployed to cultivate and increase their own estates ; and by that means enrich themselves and their country . As to the great number of rich absentees under the ...
Page 52
... sure with no small expense ) to procure me an employment whereby I might enjoy an honest living , and prove a credit both to them and myself . At the expiration of my apprenticeship , being by an indenture bound to a brazier , they ...
... sure with no small expense ) to procure me an employment whereby I might enjoy an honest living , and prove a credit both to them and myself . At the expiration of my apprenticeship , being by an indenture bound to a brazier , they ...
Page 58
... sure as a gun . Then what mun I do , say you ? Doctor . Go to the steward and provide double com- mons ; and be sure you call at the chandler's , for to- morrow I dine by candlelight . James . Oh , the wonderful wonderfulness of you ...
... sure as a gun . Then what mun I do , say you ? Doctor . Go to the steward and provide double com- mons ; and be sure you call at the chandler's , for to- morrow I dine by candlelight . James . Oh , the wonderful wonderfulness of you ...
Page 63
... sure to be most industrious in cultivating and spreading . Agriculture , which has been the principal care of all wise nations , and for the encouragement whereof there are so many statute - laws in England , we countenance so well ...
... sure to be most industrious in cultivating and spreading . Agriculture , which has been the principal care of all wise nations , and for the encouragement whereof there are so many statute - laws in England , we countenance so well ...
Page 65
... sure , induce them to place a great confidence in the benefit arising from christ- ians who damn themselves every hour of the day ; for , while they speak of the vainness and fickleness of oaths as an objection against our project ...
... sure , induce them to place a great confidence in the benefit arising from christ- ians who damn themselves every hour of the day ; for , while they speak of the vainness and fickleness of oaths as an objection against our project ...
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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.