The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, 1784 |
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132. oldal
... ftate arcana . But the progrefs I have made is much greater , having already finished my annotations upon feveral dozens ; from fome of which , I fhall impart a few hints to the candid reader , as far as will be neceffary to the ...
... ftate arcana . But the progrefs I have made is much greater , having already finished my annotations upon feveral dozens ; from fome of which , I fhall impart a few hints to the candid reader , as far as will be neceffary to the ...
134. oldal
... ftate , in pro's and con's upon popish plots , and * meal tubs , and exclufion bills , and paffive obedience , and addresses of lives and fortunes ; and prerogative , and property , and liberty of confcience , and letters to a friend ...
... ftate , in pro's and con's upon popish plots , and * meal tubs , and exclufion bills , and paffive obedience , and addresses of lives and fortunes ; and prerogative , and property , and liberty of confcience , and letters to a friend ...
153. oldal
... ftate thereof . By the word critic , at this day fo frequent in all converfations , there have fometimes been diftin- guished three very different fpecies of mortal men , according as I have read in ancient books and pam- phlets . For ...
... ftate thereof . By the word critic , at this day fo frequent in all converfations , there have fometimes been diftin- guished three very different fpecies of mortal men , according as I have read in ancient books and pam- phlets . For ...
196. oldal
... his brother's coat fo well re- duced into the ftate of innocence ; while his own was either wholly rent to his shirt ; or those places , which had escaped his cruel clutches , were still in which 106 A TALE OF A TUB .
... his brother's coat fo well re- duced into the ftate of innocence ; while his own was either wholly rent to his shirt ; or those places , which had escaped his cruel clutches , were still in which 106 A TALE OF A TUB .
200. oldal
... ftate , which argue the nation to want a heart and hands of its own , and often either fubdue the natives , or drive them into the most unfruitful corners . But , after all that can be objected by these super- cilious cenfors , it is ...
... ftate , which argue the nation to want a heart and hands of its own , and often either fubdue the natives , or drive them into the most unfruitful corners . But , after all that can be objected by these super- cilious cenfors , it is ...
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226. oldal - The two senses to which all objects first address 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 that they are not of the same consistence quite through.
285. oldal - So that, in short, the question comes all to this; whether is the nobler being of the two, that which, by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride...
281. oldal - Things were at this crisis when a material accident fell out. For upon the highest corner of a large window there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant.
282. oldal - ... defence. 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 : when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct thither a wandering bee, to whose curiosity a broken pane in the glass had discovered itself, and in he...
226. oldal - Now, I take all this to be the last degree of perverting nature; one of whose eternal laws it is, to put her best furniture forward. And therefore, in order to save the charges of all such expensive anatomy for the time to come, I do here think fit to inform the reader, that in such conclusions as these, reason is certainly in the right, and that in most corporeal beings, which have fallen under my...
141. oldal - These postulata being admitted, it will follow in due course of reasoning that those beings, which the world calls improperly suits of clothes, are in reality the most refined species of animals ; or, to proceed higher, that they are rational creatures, or men.
117. oldal - In the Attic commonwealth it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public...
107. oldal - ... seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
284. 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...
339. oldal - Too intense a contemplation is not the business of flesh and blood; it must by the necessary course of things, in a little time let go its hold and fall into matter. Lovers, for the sake of celestial converse, are but another sort of Platonics who pretend to see stars and heaven in ladies...