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... persons think they have a right to indulge themselves : he who is disgusted at the picture , feels the force of the precept , not to disgust another by his practice : and let it never be forgotten , that nothing quenches defire like ...
... persons think they have a right to indulge themselves : he who is disgusted at the picture , feels the force of the precept , not to disgust another by his practice : and let it never be forgotten , that nothing quenches defire like ...
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... persons think they have a right to indulge themselves : he who is difgufted at the picture , feels the force of the precept , not to disgust another by his practice : and let it never be forgotten , that nothing quenches defire like ...
... persons think they have a right to indulge themselves : he who is difgufted at the picture , feels the force of the precept , not to disgust another by his practice : and let it never be forgotten , that nothing quenches defire like ...
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... person hate , ́ And you on Drapier's hill + must lie , And there without a mitre die . : 50 The BEASTS CONFESSION to the PRIEST , On obferving how moft men mistake their own talents . Written in the year 1732 . The PREFACE .. : I HAVE ...
... person hate , ́ And you on Drapier's hill + must lie , And there without a mitre die . : 50 The BEASTS CONFESSION to the PRIEST , On obferving how moft men mistake their own talents . Written in the year 1732 . The PREFACE .. : I HAVE ...
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... person either finds or acknowledges his wants upon this head , or in the leaft defires to have them fupplied : Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a ftyle . » P 2 , But But this would require too ample a ...
... person either finds or acknowledges his wants upon this head , or in the leaft defires to have them fupplied : Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a ftyle . » P 2 , But But this would require too ample a ...
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... persons , than of transcendent genius and learning . Their genuine writings ( for many of them have extremely fuffered by fpurious additions ) are of admirable ufe for confirming the truth of antient doc- trines and difcipline , by ...
... persons , than of transcendent genius and learning . Their genuine writings ( for many of them have extremely fuffered by fpurious additions ) are of admirable ufe for confirming the truth of antient doc- trines and difcipline , by ...
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THE WORKS OF THE Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volum 7 Jonathan Swift Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1760 |
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Side 203 - ... durable qualities. You have but a very few years to be young and handsome in the eyes of the world, and as few months to be so in the eyes of a husband who is not a fool ; for I hope you do not still dream of charms and raptures, which marriage ever did, and ever will, put a sudden end to.
Side 169 - Simplicity, without which no human Performance can arrive to any great Perfection, is no where more eminently useful than in this.
Side 36 - In bulk there are not more degrees, From elephants to mites in cheese, Than what a curious eye may trace In creatures of the rhyming race. From bad to worse, and worse, they fall ; But who can reach the...
Side 85 - When beasts could speak, (the learned say They still can do so every day,) It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men. It happen'd, when a plague broke out, (Which therefore made them more devout,) The king of brutes (to make it plain, Of quadrupeds I only mean) By proclamation gave command, That every...
Side 40 - Let them rave at making laws ; While they never hold their tongue, Let them dabble in their dung : Let them form a grand committee, How to plague and starve the city ; Let them...
Side 31 - Then, poet, if you mean to thrive, Employ your Muse on kings alive ; With prudence gathering up a cluster Of all the virtues you can muster, Which, form'd into a garland sweet, Lay humbly at your monarch's feet :. Who, as the odours reach his throne, Will smile, and think them all his own...
Side 197 - ... and, although they may be, and too often are, drawn by the temptations of youth, and the opportunities of a large fortune, into some irregularities when they come forward into the great world, it is ever with reluctance and compunction of mind, because their bias to virtue still continues.
Side 178 - I have been better entertained, and more informed by a few pages in the Pilgrim's Progress, than by a long discourse upon the will and the intellect, and simple or complex ideas.
Side 375 - Your good behaviour on this article will concern your whole community: deny the fact with all solemnity of imprecations: a hundred of your brethren, if they can be admitted^, will attend about the bar, and be ready upon demand to give you a...
Side 204 - ... so your sex employs more thought, memory, and application to be fools, than would serve to make them wise and useful. When I reflect on this, I cannot conceive you ' to" be human creatures, but a sort of species hardly a degree above a monkey/ who...