A Tale of a Tub,: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which is Added, An Account of a Battle Between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James's LibraryThomas Tegg, 1811 - 322 oldal |
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28. oldal
... passed unseen or unobserv- ed by your friends , your enemies have at length brought to light . It is true , I should be very loth , the bright ex- ample of your Lordship's virtues should be lost to after - ages , both for their sake and ...
... passed unseen or unobserv- ed by your friends , your enemies have at length brought to light . It is true , I should be very loth , the bright ex- ample of your Lordship's virtues should be lost to after - ages , both for their sake and ...
37. oldal
... passed in the best companies of court and town . So that I can on- ly avow in general to your Highness , that we do abound in learning and wit ; but to fix upon par- ticulars , is a task too slippery for my slender abi- lities . If I ...
... passed in the best companies of court and town . So that I can on- ly avow in general to your Highness , that we do abound in learning and wit ; but to fix upon par- ticulars , is a task too slippery for my slender abi- lities . If I ...
59. oldal
... passed upon it are various . The most material of which , were such as reflected upon Dr. Swift , in the character of a clergyman , and a Christian . It has been one of the misfortunes attending Christianity , that many of her sons ...
... passed upon it are various . The most material of which , were such as reflected upon Dr. Swift , in the character of a clergyman , and a Christian . It has been one of the misfortunes attending Christianity , that many of her sons ...
76. oldal
... passed a long life with a conscience void of offence . * Here the author seems to personate L'Estrange , Dry- den , and some others , who , after having passed their lives in vices , faction , and falsehood , have the impudence to talk ...
... passed a long life with a conscience void of offence . * Here the author seems to personate L'Estrange , Dry- den , and some others , who , after having passed their lives in vices , faction , and falsehood , have the impudence to talk ...
163. oldal
... passed through , or what staid be- hind . By these methods , in a few weeks , there starts up many a writer , capable of managing the pro- foundest , and most universal subjects . For what though his head be empty , provided his common ...
... passed through , or what staid be- hind . By these methods , in a few weeks , there starts up many a writer , capable of managing the pro- foundest , and most universal subjects . For what though his head be empty , provided his common ...
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71. oldal - As to his body there can be no dispute; but examine even the acquirements of his mind, you will find them all contribute in their order towards furnishing out an exact dress : to instance no more ; is not religion a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt, selflove a surtout, vanity a shirt, and conscience a pair of breeches, which, though a cover for lewdness as well ag nastinesa, is easily slipt down for the service of both...
159. oldal - But when a man's fancy gets astride on his reason, when imagination is at cuffs with the senses, and common understanding as well as common sense is kickt out of doors...
70. oldal - Look on this globe of earth, you will find it to be a very complete and fashionable dress. What is that which some call land but a fine coat faced with green ? or the sea, but a waistcoat of water-tabby...
228. oldal - At this the spider, having swelled himself into the size and posture of a disputant, began his argument in the true spirit of controversy, with a resolution to be heartily scurrilous and angry, to urge on his own reasons, without the least regard to the answers or objections of his opposite ; and fully predetermined in his mind against all conviction. Not to disparage myself...
229. oldal - You boast indeed of being obliged to no other creature, but of drawing and spinning out all from yourself ; that is to say, if we may judge of the liquor in the vessel by what issues out, you possess a good plentiful store of dirt and poison in your breast...
213. oldal - SATIRE is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
160. oldal - And so the question is only this: whether things that have place in the imagination, may not as properly be said to exist, as those that are seated in the memory? Which may be justly held in the affirmative: and very much to the advantage of the former; since this is acknowledged to be the womb of things, and the other allowed to be no more than the grave.
75. oldal - This another of the brothers disliked, because of that epithet 'silver,' which could not, he humbly conceived, in propriety of speech be reasonably applied to a broomstick; but it was replied upon him that this epithet was understood in a mythological and allegorical sense. However, he objected again why their father should forbid them to wear a broom-stick on their coats, a caution that seemed unnatural and impertinent; upon which he was taken up short as one that spoke irreverently of a mystery,...
226. oldal - In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person by swallows from above, or to his palace by brooms from below...
162. oldal - Then I laid open his brain, his heart, and his spleen, but I plainly perceived at every operation that the farther we proceeded, we found the defects increase upon us in number and bulk...