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The Works of Dean Swift: Comprising A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books ... - Page 251
by Jonathan Swift - 1857 - 420 pages
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Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

Jonathan Swift - 1713 - 436 pages
....-•!/' i. THE Stoical Scheme of Supplylag our Wants by lopping off our Defires,. .is,-li&e cutting, oft our Feet when we Want Shoes. .PHYSICIANS ought not to give their Judgment of Religion, for, the fame Reafon that Butchers are not admitted to be Jurors upon Life and Death. , ; . , THE Reafon why...
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Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

Jonathan Swift - 1721 - 312 pages
...iroprota dixit, Ovjd. Metam. THE Stoical Scheme of Supplying our Wants by lopping oft' our De-fires, is like cutting off our Feet, when we want Shoes....PHYSICIANS ought not to give their Judgment of Religion, tor the fame reafon that Butchers are not admitted to be Jurors upon Li fe"and Death. THE Reafon why...
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The Works of J. S. ...: Miscellanies in prose

Jonathan Swift - 1735 - 374 pages
...fende tamea, imprcba, dixit. THE Stoical Scheme of fupplying our Wants, by lopping off our Defires ; is like cutting off our Feet when we want Shoes. PHYSICIANS...ought not to give their Judgment of Religion, for the fame Reafon that Butchers are not admitted to be Jurors upon Lite and Death. THE Reafon why fo few...
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The Works of D. Jonathan Swift: In Nine Volumes, Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 356 pages
...penile tamen, improba, dixit. THE floical Scheme of fupplying our Wants, by lopping off our Defires ; is like cutting off our Feet when we want Shoes. PHYSICIANS...ought not to give their Judgment of Religion, for the fame Reafon that Butchers are not admitted to be Jurors upon Life and Death. THE Reafon why fo few...
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The Works of Mrs. Chapone: Now First Collected: Letters on the improvement ...

Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1807 - 214 pages
...at him, which 1 picked up t'other day out of the dirt, that is, out of Swift. ' The stoical method of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.' I was wonderfully diverted with the comparison, and immediately resolved, though I am almost barefoot...
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The Posthumous Works of Mrs. Chapone: Containing Her Correspondence with Mr ...

Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1807 - 372 pages
...at him, which I picked up t'other day out of the dirt, that is, out of Swift. ' The stoical method of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.' I was wonderfully diverted with the comparison, and immediately resolved, though I am almost barefoot...
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The Posthumous Works of Mrs. Chapone: Containing Her Correspondence with Mr ...

Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1807 - 236 pages
...at him, which I picked up t'other day out of the dirt, that is, out of Swift. ' The stoical method of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting oifour feet when we want shoes.' I was wonderfully diverted with the comparison, and immediately resolved,...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 9

Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 pages
...in suspense; it is the life of a spider. " Vive quidem, pende tamen, improba, dixit." .OviD. Metani. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping...we want shoes. Physicians ought not to give their judgement of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 9

Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 pages
...in suspense; it is the life of a spider. " Vive quidem, pende tarn en, improba, dixit." OvID. Metam. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping...we want shoes. Physicians ought not to give their judgement of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 14

Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 386 pages
...in suspense ; it is the life of a spider. " Vive quidero, pende tamen, improba dixit." OVID. Metam. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping...desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shces. Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are...
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