The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Volum 41824 |
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Pàgina 14
... side , at last set up Hall , with all imaginable zeal , against Pratt . I tell this story the more circumstantially , because it is affirmed by his ex- cellency's friends , that he never made more use of his court skill than at this ...
... side , at last set up Hall , with all imaginable zeal , against Pratt . I tell this story the more circumstantially , because it is affirmed by his ex- cellency's friends , that he never made more use of his court skill than at this ...
Pàgina 33
... side have taken up , to scatter their menaces in every paper they publish ; it may perhaps look absurd , ridiculous , and impudent , in people at mercy to assume such a style ; but the design is right , to endeavour persuading the world ...
... side have taken up , to scatter their menaces in every paper they publish ; it may perhaps look absurd , ridiculous , and impudent , in people at mercy to assume such a style ; but the design is right , to endeavour persuading the world ...
Pàgina 34
... side , and not on the other ? Since the late change of ministry , I have observed many of that party take up a new style , and tell us , “ That this way of personal reflection ought not to be endured ; they could not approve of it ; it ...
... side , and not on the other ? Since the late change of ministry , I have observed many of that party take up a new style , and tell us , “ That this way of personal reflection ought not to be endured ; they could not approve of it ; it ...
Pàgina 55
... side , the queen , upon long deliberation , was resolved to part with them ; the universal voice of the people was against them ; her majesty is the most mild and gracious prince that ever reigned ; we have been constantly victorious ...
... side , the queen , upon long deliberation , was resolved to part with them ; the universal voice of the people was against them ; her majesty is the most mild and gracious prince that ever reigned ; we have been constantly victorious ...
Pàgina 68
... between Mademoiselle de Marais and her husband ; which being no great secrets on our side the water , I suppose were told without consequence . Monsieur Prior , having his instructions from the English court 68 MR PRIOR'S JOURNEY.
... between Mademoiselle de Marais and her husband ; which being no great secrets on our side the water , I suppose were told without consequence . Monsieur Prior , having his instructions from the English court 68 MR PRIOR'S JOURNEY.
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Pàgina 175 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Pàgina 398 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Pàgina 160 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Pàgina 175 - Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. " Come ye," say they, " I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink ; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Pàgina 364 - This pow'r has praise, that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet reason frowns on war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name. And mortgaged states their grandsires...
Pàgina 151 - A Specimen of some errors and defects in the History of the Reformation of the Church of England, written by Gilbert Burnet, DD
Pàgina 59 - I had rather be thought a good Englishman, than the best poet, or greatest scholar that ever wrote.
Pàgina 8 - ... climacteric, without any visible effects of old age, either on his body or his mind, and in spite of a continual prostitution to those vices which usually wear out both. His behaviour is in all the forms of a young man at five-and-twenty. Whether he walks, or whistles, or swears, or talks bawdy, or calls names, he acquits himself in each, beyond a templar of three years standing.
Pàgina 123 - Ihe places sacred to his worship !) to spoil for a time this beautiful and pleasing prospect, and give us in its stead, — I know not what. Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure.
Pàgina 232 - The offence consisted in his having said, when the clergy were about to move a Tory address, "Those who have turned the world upside down are come hither also...