The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 10J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
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... pass , they are wonderfully unacquainted with their own temper and disposition , and know very little of what passeth within them : for , of so many proud , ambitious , revengeful , envying , and ill - natured persons that are in the ...
... pass , they are wonderfully unacquainted with their own temper and disposition , and know very little of what passeth within them : for , of so many proud , ambitious , revengeful , envying , and ill - natured persons that are in the ...
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... passing through the several stages of that great duty , repentance : I proceed now , in the Second place , To inquire into the grounds and reasons of this ignorance , " and to show whence it " cometh to pass that man , the only creature ...
... passing through the several stages of that great duty , repentance : I proceed now , in the Second place , To inquire into the grounds and reasons of this ignorance , " and to show whence it " cometh to pass that man , the only creature ...
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... pass away months and years in a perfect slumber of the mind , without once awaking it , it is no wonder they should be so very ignorant of themselves , and know very little more of what passeth within them than the very beasts which ...
... pass away months and years in a perfect slumber of the mind , without once awaking it , it is no wonder they should be so very ignorant of themselves , and know very little more of what passeth within them than the very beasts which ...
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... pass away before we can well discern good from evil ; and of the rest , so much goeth away in sleep , so much in the proper business of our callings , that we have none to lay out upon the more serious and religious em- ployments ...
... pass away before we can well discern good from evil ; and of the rest , so much goeth away in sleep , so much in the proper business of our callings , that we have none to lay out upon the more serious and religious em- ployments ...
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... pass , that a man can never find leisure to look into himself , because he doth not set apart some portion of the day for that very purpose , but foolishly deferreth from one day to another , until his glass is almost run out , and he ...
... pass , that a man can never find leisure to look into himself , because he doth not set apart some portion of the day for that very purpose , but foolishly deferreth from one day to another , until his glass is almost run out , and he ...
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Page 104 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 52 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 37 - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 214 - GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Page 85 - Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Page 87 - And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council, and set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law : for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
Page 165 - Thou hast promised that where two or three are gathered together in Thy name Thou wilt be in the midst of them...
Page 245 - Do not we see how easily we pardon our own actions and passions, and the very infirmities of our bodies : why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own dulness...
Page 35 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 67 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.