 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
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 512 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
...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,... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 431 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 - 448 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,... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 376 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 - 454 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 - 1975 - 990 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 - 265 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,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1849
...a doubtful witness. The year before, in his " Argument against abolishing Christianity," he relates that " two young gentlemen of real hopes, bright wit,...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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