 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...Dudley themselves, if they were now alive, would find it impossible to put them in execution. V" ^ \ so great a number of able [bodied] divines, might be...our fleet and armies. This indeed appears to be a consideration of some weight: but then, on the other side, several things deserve to be considered... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...at least two hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure, and freethinking, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices ; who might be an ornament to the couit and town-: and then again, so great a number of able [bodied] divines, might be a recruit to... | |
 | David Irving - 1803 - 266 pages
...young gentlemen of wit, and f leafurc, and iree-thinking } enemies to prieft.craft, narrow principle;, pedantry, and prejudices ; who might be an ornament...of able (bodied) divines, might be a recruit to our fleets and armies. This indeed appears to be a conilderation offome weight : but then, on the other... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 516 pages
...at least two' hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure, and freethinking, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices ; who...an ornament to the court and town: and then again, so great a number of able [bodied] divines, might be a recruit to our fleet and armies. This indeed... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 pages
...at least two hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure, and freethinking, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices ; who...an ornament to the court and town : and then again, so great a number of able [bodied] divines, might be a recruit to our fleet and armies. This indeed... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 pages
...at least two hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure, and freethinking, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices ; who...an ornament to the court and town: and then again, so great a number of able j bodied] divines, might be a recruit to our fleet and armies. This indeed... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...least two hundred young gentlemen of wit, and pleasure, and free.thinking : enemies to priest-craft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices ; who...an ornament to the court and town : and then again, so great a number of able (bodied) divines might be a recruit to our fleets and armies. This, indeed,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...at least two hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure, and free-thinking, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices, who might...an ornament to the court and town; and then, again, so great a number of able bodied divines might be a recruit to our fleet and armies. This, indeed,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...gentlemen of wit and pleasure, and frcethiukiiig, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, ami prejudices, who might be an ornament to the court and town : and then again, so great a number of able [bodied] divines might be a recruit to our fleet and rnnies. This indeed... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 pages
...at least two hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure, and freethinking, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices, who might...an ornament to the court and town : and then again, so great a number of able [bodied] divines might be a recruit to our fleet and armies. This indeed... | |
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It is likewise urged that there are, by computation, in this kingdom above ten thousand parsons, whose revenues added to those of my lords the bishops would suffice to maintain at least two hundred young gentlemen of wit and pleasure and free-thinking,... 
