The Tale of a Tub and Other WorksG. Routledge, 1889 - 448 pàgines |
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Pàgina 37
... I was diverted by a certain accident . For upon the covers of these papers I casually observed written in large letters the two following words , DETUR DIGNISSIMO , which , for aught I knew , might contain some important meaning .
... I was diverted by a certain accident . For upon the covers of these papers I casually observed written in large letters the two following words , DETUR DIGNISSIMO , which , for aught I knew , might contain some important meaning .
Pàgina 41
... a surreptitious copy which a certain great wit had new polished and refined , or , as our present writers express themselves , " fitted to the humour of the age , " as they have already done with great felicity to Don Quixote ,
... a surreptitious copy which a certain great wit had new polished and refined , or , as our present writers express themselves , " fitted to the humour of the age , " as they have already done with great felicity to Don Quixote ,
Pàgina 44
... certain that in their own nature they were light enough to swim upon the surface for all eternity ; therefore , the fault is in him who tied weights so heavy to their heels as to depress them to the centre . Is their very essence ...
... certain that in their own nature they were light enough to swim upon the surface for all eternity ; therefore , the fault is in him who tied weights so heavy to their heels as to depress them to the centre . Is their very essence ...
Pàgina 46
... certain they would be all changed in figure and position , new ones would arise , and all we could agree upon would be , that clouds there were , but that I was grossly mistaken in the zoography and topography of them . town . But your ...
... certain they would be all changed in figure and position , new ones would arise , and all we could agree upon would be , that clouds there were , but that I was grossly mistaken in the zoography and topography of them . town . But your ...
Pàgina 47
... certain poet called John Dryden , whose translation of Virgil was lately printed in large folio , well bound , and if diligent search were made , for aught I know , is yet to be seen . There is another called Nahum Tate , who is ready ...
... certain poet called John Dryden , whose translation of Virgil was lately printed in large folio , well bound , and if diligent search were made , for aught I know , is yet to be seen . There is another called Nahum Tate , who is ready ...
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Pàgina 402 - But the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Pàgina 383 - 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.
Pàgina 380 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility : for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Pàgina 134 - Epicurus modestly hoped that, one time or other, a certain fortuitous concourse of all men's opinions, after perpetual justlings, the sharp with the smooth, the light and the heavy, the round and the square, would by certain clinamina unite in the notions of atoms and void, as these did in the originals of all things. Cartesius reckoned to see, before he died, the sentiments of all philosophers, like so many lesser stars in his romantic system, wrapped and drawn within his own vortex.
Pàgina 126 - ... chaps. For we must here observe, that all learning was esteemed among them, to be compounded from the same principle. Because, first, it is generally affirmed, or confessed, that learning puffeth men up; and, secondly, they proved it by the following syllogism: Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Pàgina 351 - Nay, though the treacherous tapster Thomas, Hangs a new Angel two doors from us, As fine as dauber's hands can make it, In hopes that strangers may mistake it, We think it both a shame and sin To quit the true old Angel Inn. Now this is Stella's case in fact, An angel's face a little crack'd, Could poets or could painters fix How angels look at thirty-six...
Pàgina 272 - And, like a drunkard, gives it up again. Brisk Susan whips her linen from the rope, While the first drizzling...
Pàgina 207 - Mrs Nab, it might become you to be more civil ; If your money be gone, as a learned Divine says,* d'ye see, You are no text for my handling ; so take that from me : I was never taken for a Conjurer before, I'd have you to know.
Pàgina 381 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Pàgina 72 - I must, with the reader's good leave and patience, have recourse to some points of weight, which the authors of that age have not sufficiently illustrated. For about this time it happened a sect arose, whose tenets obtained and spread very far, especially in the grand monde, and among everybody of good fashion. They worshipped a sort of idol, who, as their doctrine delivered, did daily create men by a kind of manufactory operation.