 These never examine farther than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell, or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies ; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering...  The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ... - Page 105by Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 2984 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 pages
...sight and the touch; these never examine farther than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever qualities dwell or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing; offering to demonstrate,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 506 pages
...Qualities dwell, or are drawn by Art upon the Outward of Bodies ; and then comes Rea§o»- officiously, with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that they are not of the same consistence quite thro'. Now, I take all this to be the... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 pages
...whatever qualities dwell or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing; offering to demonstrate, that they are not of the same consistence quite through. Now I take all this to be the... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...be content with what we can know by sight and touch only, and ignore reason which comes "officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that they are not of the same consistence quite through." Let us therefore be content... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 pages
...themselves, are the Sight and the Touch; These never examine farther than the Colour, the Shape, the Size, and whatever other Qualities dwell, or are drawn by Art upon the Outward of Bodies; and then comes Reason officiously, with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate,... | |
 | Mark Wollaeger - 1990 - 288 pages
...for nothing." Insight requires violence: if surfaces do not satisfy, "then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that they are not of the same consistence quite through." The ambivalence is apparent... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 pages
...life are destroyed by the probing thrusts of analytical reason: And then comes Reason officiously, with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that they are not of the same consistence quite thro'. Now, I take all this to be the... | |
 | Stephen W. Melville, Bill Readings - 1995 - 418 pages
...themselves, are the Sight and the Touch; These never examine farther than the Colour, the Shape, the Size, and whatever other Qualities dwell, or are drawn by Art upon the Outward of Bodies; and then comes Reason officiously, with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate,... | |
 | James Noggle - 2001 - 288 pages
...revealing the dogmatically empty pretensions of the other. 15 Lofty reason descends into the material, "with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that [bodies] are not of the same consistence quite thro'" (173), coming to subvert its... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 290 pages
...themselves are the sight and the touch. These never examine further than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell, or are drawn by art, upon the outward of bodies; and then comes reason officiously, with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate... | |
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