The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ; with a Memoir of the Author, Volume 2Bohn, 1850 |
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Page 138
... tell him that it will blacken his reputation , which he had rather die for than lose ; tell him that the pleasure of sin is short and transient , and leaveth a vexatious kind of sting behind it , which will very hardly be drawn forth ...
... tell him that it will blacken his reputation , which he had rather die for than lose ; tell him that the pleasure of sin is short and transient , and leaveth a vexatious kind of sting behind it , which will very hardly be drawn forth ...
Page 140
... tell how often a vicious inclination hath been restrained , for no other reason , but just to save the man's credit or interest in the world ; and how many unbecoming ingredients have entered into the composition of his best actions ...
... tell how often a vicious inclination hath been restrained , for no other reason , but just to save the man's credit or interest in the world ; and how many unbecoming ingredients have entered into the composition of his best actions ...
Page 195
... tell me I am to believe the Bible ; but freethinking tells me otherwise in many particulars . The Bible says the Jews were a nation favoured by God ; but I , who am a freethinker , say that cannot be , because the Jews lived in a corner ...
... tell me I am to believe the Bible ; but freethinking tells me otherwise in many particulars . The Bible says the Jews were a nation favoured by God ; but I , who am a freethinker , say that cannot be , because the Jews lived in a corner ...
Page 196
... tell you my meaning in all this . The priests dispute every point in the Christian religion as well as almost every text in the Bible ; and the force of my argument lies here , that , whatever point is disputed by one or two divines ...
... tell you my meaning in all this . The priests dispute every point in the Christian religion as well as almost every text in the Bible ; and the force of my argument lies here , that , whatever point is disputed by one or two divines ...
Page 232
... tell us of their merits in the late war in Ireland , and how cheerfully they engaged for the safety of the nation ; that if they had thought they had been fight- ing only other people's quarrels , perhaps it might have cooled their zeal ...
... tell us of their merits in the late war in Ireland , and how cheerfully they engaged for the safety of the nation ; that if they had thought they had been fight- ing only other people's quarrels , perhaps it might have cooled their zeal ...
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Page 88 - I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.
Page 88 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends ; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Page 140 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Page 88 - That the remaining hundred, thousand may at a year old be offered in sale to the persons of quality, and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment...
Page 80 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded: but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 88 - I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children, in the arms or on the backs or at the heels of their mothers and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance...
Page 88 - But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed beggars: it is of a much greater extent, and shall take in the whole number of infants at a certain age, who are born of parents in effect as little able to support them, as those who demand our charity in the streets.
Page 88 - Catholic countries about nine months after Lent, than at any other season; therefore reckoning a year after Lent, the markets will be more glutted than usual, because the number of Popish infants, is at least three to one in this kingdom, and therefore it will have one other collateral advantage by lessening the number of Papists among us.
Page 89 - And as to the young labourers they are now in almost as hopeful a condition; they cannot get work, and consequently pine away for want of nourishment, to a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it; and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come.
Page 152 - 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.