The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author, Volume 5Derby & Jackson, 1861 |
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... common rights and liberties of human - kind . I could undertake to name six or seven of the most uncontrolled maxims in govern- ment , which are utterly false in this kingdom . As to the additional duty on wine , I think any person may ...
... common rights and liberties of human - kind . I could undertake to name six or seven of the most uncontrolled maxims in govern- ment , which are utterly false in this kingdom . As to the additional duty on wine , I think any person may ...
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... common luxury of every chambermaid , sempstress , and tradesman's wife , both in town and country , however they come by it must needs cost the kingdom double that sum . Coffee is somewhat above 7,0007 . I have seen no account of ...
... common luxury of every chambermaid , sempstress , and tradesman's wife , both in town and country , however they come by it must needs cost the kingdom double that sum . Coffee is somewhat above 7,0007 . I have seen no account of ...
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... common stock would leave them in debt 2,000,0007 . sterling , adding those who are beggars by profession to the bulk of farmers , cot- tagers , and laborers , with the wives and children who are beggars in effect ; I desire those ...
... common stock would leave them in debt 2,000,0007 . sterling , adding those who are beggars by profession to the bulk of farmers , cot- tagers , and laborers , with the wives and children who are beggars in effect ; I desire those ...
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... common use and lasting fire . Whatever new discoveries there are of more coal - mines , ( as I am informed of one in the county of Meath , ) the more the better ; and let all the encouragement that can be given for finding out the same ...
... common use and lasting fire . Whatever new discoveries there are of more coal - mines , ( as I am informed of one in the county of Meath , ) the more the better ; and let all the encouragement that can be given for finding out the same ...
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... common forms to a person in a private station ; - those distinctions being usually made only to chief governors , or persons in very high employments . ADVERTISEMENT BY DR . SWIFT IN HIS DEFENCE AGAINST JOSHUA LORD ALLEN . February 18 ...
... common forms to a person in a private station ; - those distinctions being usually made only to chief governors , or persons in very high employments . ADVERTISEMENT BY DR . SWIFT IN HIS DEFENCE AGAINST JOSHUA LORD ALLEN . February 18 ...
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Page 162 - For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 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. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace...
Page 505 - Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind. POPE. ' CENSURE,' says a late ingenious author, ' is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Page 115 - But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you : for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Page 164 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 17 - There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas! too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.
Page 137 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 21 - Fifthly, this food would likewise bring great custom to taverns, where the vintners will certainly be so prudent as to procure the best receipts for dressing it to perfection, and consequently have their houses frequented by all the fine gentlemen, who justly value themselves upon their knowledge in good eating...
Page 511 - GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom 'we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Page 94 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility : for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 508 - Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves ; in women, from the contrary.