The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essaysA. Constable, 1814 |
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... hands ) upon whatever point his lordship shall command ; although the farmers have not paid one quarter of his dues . I believe , under the present distresses of the kingdom ( which inevitably without a miracle must increase for ever ) ...
... hands ) upon whatever point his lordship shall command ; although the farmers have not paid one quarter of his dues . I believe , under the present distresses of the kingdom ( which inevitably without a miracle must increase for ever ) ...
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... hands in any Christian country ; and so it may pass for more than a phoenix ; because it has risen without any assistance from the ashes of its sire . The appearance of so many dissenters at the hearing of this cause , is what , I am ...
... hands in any Christian country ; and so it may pass for more than a phoenix ; because it has risen without any assistance from the ashes of its sire . The appearance of so many dissenters at the hearing of this cause , is what , I am ...
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... hands , that the former of those bills might , by its ne- cessary consequences , be very displeasing to the lay gentlemen of the kingdom , for many reasons purely secular ; and that this last attempt for re- pealing the test did much ...
... hands , that the former of those bills might , by its ne- cessary consequences , be very displeasing to the lay gentlemen of the kingdom , for many reasons purely secular ; and that this last attempt for re- pealing the test did much ...
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... hands ; which often consist of large domains and it is the minister's interest to make them easy upon that article , when he considers what influence those gentlemen have upon their tenants . The clergy cannot but think it extremely se ...
... hands ; which often consist of large domains and it is the minister's interest to make them easy upon that article , when he considers what influence those gentlemen have upon their tenants . The clergy cannot but think it extremely se ...
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... hands of the laity . So that they now are generally forced to lie at the mercy of landlords , for a small piece of ground in their pa- rishes , at a most exorbitant rent , and usually for a short term of years , whereon to build a house ...
... hands of the laity . So that they now are generally forced to lie at the mercy of landlords , for a small piece of ground in their pa- rishes , at a most exorbitant rent , and usually for a short term of years , whereon to build a house ...
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Page 434 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Page 492 - ... graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. . . . Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation.
Page 330 - THE HONOURABLE ROBERT BOYLE'S MEDITATIONS. '""PHIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying •*- in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest ; it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs ; but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk...
Page 282 - I could not observe any circumstance of devotion in their behaviour : there was, indeed, a man in black who was mounted above the rest, and seemed to utter something with a great deal of vehemence ; but as for those underneath him, instead of paying their worship to the deity of the place, they were most of them bowing and curtseying to one another, and a considerable number of them fast asleep.
Page 247 - Rep, and many more, when we are already overloaded with monosyllables, which are the disgrace of our language. Thus we cram one syllable, and cut off the rest, as the owl fattened her mice after she had bit off their legs to prevent them from running away...
Page 434 - The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former. Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation to posterity, let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
Page 420 - I advise that your company at home should consist of men, rather than women. To say the truth, I never yet knew a tolerable woman to be fond of her own sex.
Page 330 - Surely mortal man is a broomstick ! nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning •vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...
Page 423 - As little Respect as I have for the Generality of your Sex, it hath sometimes moved me with Pity, to see the Lady of the House forced to withdraw, immediately after Dinner, and this in Families where there is not much Drinking; as if it were an established Maxim, that Women are incapable of all Conversation.
Page 338 - This may be true in oratory ; but contemplation in other things, exceeds action. And therefore a wise man is never less alone, than when he is alone : Nunquam minus solus, quam cum solus.