The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, 1784 |
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... practice , he never claimed any , but let his friends Arbuthnot and Pope enjoy the whole repu- tation as well as profit arifing from them ; and as thefe have always made a part of Swift's Works , where only they are now to be found ...
... practice , he never claimed any , but let his friends Arbuthnot and Pope enjoy the whole repu- tation as well as profit arifing from them ; and as thefe have always made a part of Swift's Works , where only they are now to be found ...
Page 75
... practice of either science : but religion , they tell us , ought not to be ridiculed ; and they tell us truth : yet furely the corruptions in it may ; for we are taught by the triteft maxim in the world , that religion being the best of ...
... practice of either science : but religion , they tell us , ought not to be ridiculed ; and they tell us truth : yet furely the corruptions in it may ; for we are taught by the triteft maxim in the world , that religion being the best of ...
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... practice and reputation these kind of ftruc- tures have formerly poffeffed , or may still continue in , not excepting even that of Socrates , when he was fufpended in a basket to help contemplation ; I think , with due fubmiffion , they ...
... practice and reputation these kind of ftruc- tures have formerly poffeffed , or may still continue in , not excepting even that of Socrates , when he was fufpended in a basket to help contemplation ; I think , with due fubmiffion , they ...
Page 122
... practice , exactly correfpon- dent to the primitive inftitution , and both to answer the etymology of the name , which in the Phoenician tongue is a word of great fignification , importing , if literally interpreted , the place of fleep ...
... practice , exactly correfpon- dent to the primitive inftitution , and both to answer the etymology of the name , which in the Phoenician tongue is a word of great fignification , importing , if literally interpreted , the place of fleep ...
Page 124
... practice and under- standing of this machine . The afcending orators do not only oblige their audience in the agreeable deli- very , but the whole world in the early publication of their speeches ; which I look upon as the choiceft ...
... practice and under- standing of this machine . The afcending orators do not only oblige their audience in the agreeable deli- very , but the whole world in the early publication of their speeches ; which I look upon as the choiceft ...
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Page 226 - The two senses to which all objects first address themselves are the sight and the touch. These never examine farther than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell, or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies ; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate that they are not of the same consistence quite through.
Page 285 - 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 281 - Things were at this crisis when a material accident fell out. For upon the highest corner of a large window there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant.
Page 282 - ... defence. 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 wandering bee, to whose curiosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he...
Page 226 - Now, I take all this to be the last degree of perverting nature; one of whose eternal laws it is, to put her best furniture forward. And therefore, in order to save the charges of all such expensive anatomy for the time to come, I do here think fit to inform the reader, that in such conclusions as these, reason is certainly in the right, and that in most corporeal beings, which have fallen under my...
Page 141 - These postulata being admitted, it will follow in due course of reasoning that those beings, which the world calls improperly suits of clothes, are in reality the most refined species of animals ; or, to proceed higher, that they are rational creatures, or men.
Page 117 - In the Attic commonwealth it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public...
Page 107 - ... seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Page 284 - You boast, indeed, of being obliged to no other creature, but of drawing and spinning out all from yourself ; that is to say, if we may judge of the liquor in the vessel by what issues out, you possess a good plentiful store of dirt and poison in your breast...
Page 339 - Too intense a contemplation is not the business of flesh and blood; it must by the necessary course of things, in a little time let go its hold and fall into matter. Lovers, for the sake of celestial converse, are but another sort of Platonics who pretend to see stars and heaven in ladies...