The Tale of a Tub and Other WorksG. Routledge, 1889 - 448 pàgines |
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Pàgina 15
... occasion of the death of a relation , and brought him back after two years , so well taught , for an infant , that Swift tells us he could read any chapter in the Bible when he was three years old . When he was six years old his mother ...
... occasion of the death of a relation , and brought him back after two years , so well taught , for an infant , that Swift tells us he could read any chapter in the Bible when he was three years old . When he was six years old his mother ...
Pàgina 40
... occasion to exercise it at present . Though perhaps I shall not be apt to reckon much merit to your Lordship upon that score , who having been formerly used to tedious harangues , and sometimes to as little purpose , will be the readier ...
... occasion to exercise it at present . Though perhaps I shall not be apt to reckon much merit to your Lordship upon that score , who having been formerly used to tedious harangues , and sometimes to as little purpose , will be the readier ...
Pàgina 45
... occasion . His inveterate malice is such to the writings of our age , that , of several thousands produced yearly from this renowned city , before the next revolution of the sun there is not one to be heard of . Unhappy infants ! many ...
... occasion . His inveterate malice is such to the writings of our age , that , of several thousands produced yearly from this renowned city , before the next revolution of the sun there is not one to be heard of . Unhappy infants ! many ...
Pàgina 57
... occasion . Besides , I have been unhappily prevented in that design by a certain domestic misfortune , in the particulars whereof , though it would be very seasonable , and much in the modern way , to inform the gentle reader , and ...
... occasion . Besides , I have been unhappily prevented in that design by a certain domestic misfortune , in the particulars whereof , though it would be very seasonable , and much in the modern way , to inform the gentle reader , and ...
Pàgina 68
... occasion for me and my ink , I retire willingly to draw it out into speculations more becoming a philosopher , having , to my unspeakable comfort , passed a long life with a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men . But ...
... occasion for me and my ink , I retire willingly to draw it out into speculations more becoming a philosopher , having , to my unspeakable comfort , passed a long life with a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men . But ...
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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.