The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 1. kötetC. Bathurst, 1755 |
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9. oldal
... Soon after this tranfaction he Sketch , was feized with the return of a diforder which he had contracted in Ireland by eating a great quantity of fruit ; and upon this occafion returned thither by the advice of his phyficians , who ...
... Soon after this tranfaction he Sketch , was feized with the return of a diforder which he had contracted in Ireland by eating a great quantity of fruit ; and upon this occafion returned thither by the advice of his phyficians , who ...
32. oldal
... soon removed , by the difinterested integrity of his con- duct , which was so apparent and striking , that they foon regarded him with refpect and veneration , and almost implicitly acquiefced in whatever he proposed . This removal from ...
... soon removed , by the difinterested integrity of his con- duct , which was so apparent and striking , that they foon regarded him with refpect and veneration , and almost implicitly acquiefced in whatever he proposed . This removal from ...
37. oldal
... soon after his marriage he vi- fited her on another account , he went as an advocate for Mr. dean Winter , whom he took with him , a gentle- man who was a professed admirer of Vanessa , and had made her fome overtures of marriage ; but ...
... soon after his marriage he vi- fited her on another account , he went as an advocate for Mr. dean Winter , whom he took with him , a gentle- man who was a professed admirer of Vanessa , and had made her fome overtures of marriage ; but ...
44. oldal
... Soon afterwards he was called haftily up by the dean , who , without any preface , again ordered him to ftrip off his livery , put on his own cloaths , and then come to him again . The poor fellow , though he was greatly aftonished at ...
... Soon afterwards he was called haftily up by the dean , who , without any preface , again ordered him to ftrip off his livery , put on his own cloaths , and then come to him again . The poor fellow , though he was greatly aftonished at ...
47. oldal
... soon after feized with one of his fits of giddinefs and deafnefs , a calamity which was great- ly aggravated by the news that Mrs. Johnson was a- gain fo ill , that the physicians despaired of her life . Upon this occafion he relapfed ...
... soon after feized with one of his fits of giddinefs and deafnefs , a calamity which was great- ly aggravated by the news that Mrs. Johnson was a- gain fo ill , that the physicians despaired of her life . Upon this occafion he relapfed ...
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173. oldal - In the proportion that credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than curiosity, so far preferable is that wisdom which converses about the surface to that pretended philosophy which enters into the depth of things, and then comes gravely back with informations and discoveries that in the inside they are good for nothing.
140. oldal - Lords, learn their Titles exactly, and then brag of their Acquaintance. Or Secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer Method, to get a thorough Insight into the Index, by which the whole Book is governed and turned, like Fishes by the Tail. For, to enter the Palace of Learning at the great Gate, requires an Expence of Time and Forms; therefore Men of much Haste and little Ceremony, are content to get in by the Back-Door.
24. oldal - In the Attic commonwealth,* it was the privilege and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public...
4. oldal - Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
245. 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...
57. 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.
312. 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...
246. oldal - I am glad," answered the bee, "to hear you grant at least that I am come honestly by my wings and my voice; for then, it seems, I am obliged to Heaven alone for my flights and my music; and Providence would never have bestowed on me two such gifts without designing them for the noblest ends.
171. oldal - ... whether things that have place in the imagination may not as properly be said to exist as those that are seated in the memory...
45. oldal - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.