 For it is confidently reported, that two young gentlemen of real hopes, bright wit, and profound judgment, who, upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learning...  The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Including ... - Page 38by Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784Full view - About this book
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...notwithstanding all the good intentions of the legislature, as we have lately found by a severe instance. For it is confidently reported that two young gentlemen...profound judgment, who, upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learning,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pages
...notwithstanding all the good intentions of the 40 legislature, as we have lately found by a severe instance. For it is confidently reported that two young gentlemen...profound judgment, who, upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learn-... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 pages
...notwithstanding all the good intentions of the legislature, as we have lately found by a severe instance. For it is confidently reported, that two young gentlemen...profound judgment, who, upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natuial abilities, without the least tincture of learning,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...notwithstanding all the good intentions of the 40 legislature, as we have lately found by a severe instance. For it is confidently reported that two young gentlemen...profound judgment, who, upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learn-... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...remain to keep him so. WILLIAM SHAKSPEBB — Julius Ccesar 324. THE NECESSITY FOR A NOMINAL RELIGION It is confidently reported, that two young gentlemen...profound judgment, who upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learning,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...notwithstanding all the good intentions of the legislature, as we have lately found by a severe instance. For it is confidently reported, that two young gentlemen...profound judgment, who upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learning,... | |
 | Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 pages
...notwithstanding all the good intentions of the legislature, as we have lately found by a severe instance. For it is confidently reported that two young gentlemen...profound judgment, who, upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learning,... | |
 | Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - 1925 - 490 pages
...done with such useful though ordinary qualifications?" or savage with bitter sarcasm as in Swift's: "It is confidently reported that two young gentlemen...profound judgment, who, upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learning,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1983 - 1028 pages
...by the Church. In evidence he cited the 'severe Instance' of two officers, 'young Gentlemen of great Hopes, bright Wit, and profound Judgment, who upon a thorough Examination of Causes and Effects, and by the meer Force of natural Abilities, without the least Tincture of Learning;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 290 pages
...notwithstanding all the good intentions of the legislature, as we have lately found by a severe instance. For it is confidently reported, that two young gentlemen...profound judgment, who upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learning,... | |
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