The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinC. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Hinton, J. Dodsley, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, and W. Bowyer, 1766 |
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Page 35
... principle of love and honour , pays no debts but for wenches and play ; how fuch a one has got a clap , and runs out of his eftate ; how Paris , bribed by Juno and Venus * , loth to offend either party , flept out the whole cause on the ...
... principle of love and honour , pays no debts but for wenches and play ; how fuch a one has got a clap , and runs out of his eftate ; how Paris , bribed by Juno and Venus * , loth to offend either party , flept out the whole cause on the ...
Page 94
... principles , I am now advan- cing to gratify the world with a very particular account Melles contingens cuncta lepore : * The fox in the fable , who having been caught in a trap , and loft his tail , ufed many arguments to perfuade the ...
... principles , I am now advan- cing to gratify the world with a very particular account Melles contingens cuncta lepore : * The fox in the fable , who having been caught in a trap , and loft his tail , ufed many arguments to perfuade the ...
Page 99
... principle • this whole universe was at first produced , and into which it must at last be refolved ; that the fame breath which had kindled , and blew up the flame of nature , fhould one day blow it out . Quod procul a nobis flectat ...
... principle • this whole universe was at first produced , and into which it must at last be refolved ; that the fame breath which had kindled , and blew up the flame of nature , fhould one day blow it out . Quod procul a nobis flectat ...
Page 100
... principle was , That man brings with him into the world a peculiar portion or grain of wind , which may be called a quinta effentia , extracted from the other four . This quinteffence is of a catholic ufe upon all emergencies of life ...
... principle was , That man brings with him into the world a peculiar portion or grain of wind , which may be called a quinta effentia , extracted from the other four . This quinteffence is of a catholic ufe upon all emergencies of life ...
Page 101
... principle : Becaufe , firft , it is gene- - rally affirmed , or confeffed , that learning puffeth men up ; and , fecondly , they proved it by the following fyllo- gifm : Words are but wind ; and learning is nothing but words ; ergo ...
... principle : Becaufe , firft , it is gene- - rally affirmed , or confeffed , that learning puffeth men up ; and , fecondly , they proved it by the following fyllo- gifm : Words are but wind ; and learning is nothing but words ; ergo ...
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