 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
 | Michael McKeon - 2006 - 942 pages
...willing to go beyond the superficiality of the senses, a rational faculty that comes "officiously, with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that [physical bodies] are not of the same consistence quite thro'. . . . Yesterday I... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2006 - 270 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,... | |
 | John Farrell - 2006 - 372 pages
...farther than the Colour, the Shape, the Size, and whatever other Qualities dwell, or are drawn by Art 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... | |
 | 1916 - 256 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,... | |
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