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... Wotton were added in 1710 ; this edition the Dean revised a fhort time before his understanding was impair- ed , and his corrections will be found in this impression . Gulliver's Travels were first printed in the year 1726 , with fome ...
... Wotton were added in 1710 ; this edition the Dean revised a fhort time before his understanding was impair- ed , and his corrections will be found in this impression . Gulliver's Travels were first printed in the year 1726 , with fome ...
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... ; Lucret . And Explanatory Notes , by W. Wotton , B. D , and others , LONDON : Printed for CHARLES BATHURST , in Fleet - Street . MDCCLXVIII . APOLOG Y. F good and ill nature equally operated upon TALE OF A TU B. A ...
... ; Lucret . And Explanatory Notes , by W. Wotton , B. D , and others , LONDON : Printed for CHARLES BATHURST , in Fleet - Street . MDCCLXVIII . APOLOG Y. F good and ill nature equally operated upon TALE OF A TU B. A ...
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... Wotton's defence of his reflections upon ancient and modern learning : from the an- notation are felected the notes figned W. Watton ; thus Wotton appears bufied to illuftrate a work , which he laboured to condemn , and adds force to a ...
... Wotton's defence of his reflections upon ancient and modern learning : from the an- notation are felected the notes figned W. Watton ; thus Wotton appears bufied to illuftrate a work , which he laboured to condemn , and adds force to a ...
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... Wotton . It is the ufual ftyle of decri- ed writers to appeal to Pofteri- ty , who is here reprefented as a prince in his nonage , and Time as his governor ; and the author begins in a way very frequent with him , by perfonating other ...
... Wotton . It is the ufual ftyle of decri- ed writers to appeal to Pofteri- ty , who is here reprefented as a prince in his nonage , and Time as his governor ; and the author begins in a way very frequent with him , by perfonating other ...
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... Wotton , B. D. who has written a good fizeable volume against a friend of your governor ' ( from whom alas he muft therefore look for little favour ) in a most gentlemanly ftile , adorned with the utmoft politenefs and civility ...
... Wotton , B. D. who has written a good fizeable volume against a friend of your governor ' ( from whom alas he muft therefore look for little favour ) in a most gentlemanly ftile , adorned with the utmoft politenefs and civility ...
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Page 264 - 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 69 - 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 259 - 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 57 - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.
Page 259 - 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 267 - 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.
Page 54 - It is a sackposset, wherein the deeper you go you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider because it is attended with an egg. But then...
Page 68 - To conclude from all, what is man himself but a micro-coat, or rather a complete suit of clothes with all its trimmings? As to his body there can be no dispute; but examine even the acquirements of his mind, you will find them all contribute in their order towards furnishing out an exact dress: to instance no more; is not religion a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt...
Page 188 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Page 75 - You taught how I might youth prolong, By knowing what was right and wrong; How from my heart to bring supplies Of lustre to my fading eyes...