The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen Volumes. ...John Donadlson [sic], London, 1774 |
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Sivu iii
... lord . His converfation with that lord , Chap . V. The author permitted to fee the grand acad my of Lagado . The academy . largely defcribed . The arts wherein the pro- feffors employ themselves , Chap . Vi . A further account of the ...
... lord . His converfation with that lord , Chap . V. The author permitted to fee the grand acad my of Lagado . The academy . largely defcribed . The arts wherein the pro- feffors employ themselves , Chap . Vi . A further account of the ...
Sivu 30
... lords and ladies in their finery , and birth - day cloaths , acting their fe- veral parts in the moft courtly manner of ftrutting , and bowing , and prating ; to fay the truth , I fhould have been strongly tempted to laugh as much at ...
... lords and ladies in their finery , and birth - day cloaths , acting their fe- veral parts in the moft courtly manner of ftrutting , and bowing , and prating ; to fay the truth , I fhould have been strongly tempted to laugh as much at ...
Sivu 31
... lords or ladies of the court , and he feldom failed of a fmart word or two upon my littleness ; against which I could only revenge myfelf by calling him brother , challenging him to wrestle , and fuch re- partees as are usual in the ...
... lords or ladies of the court , and he feldom failed of a fmart word or two upon my littleness ; against which I could only revenge myfelf by calling him brother , challenging him to wrestle , and fuch re- partees as are usual in the ...
Sivu 50
... Lord Bacon obferves , turn it in- to vinegar . It becomes fharp and corroding : and certainly it is more elgible to die immediately by the wound of an enemy , than to decay lingering by poifon , adminiftered from a feeming friend ...
... Lord Bacon obferves , turn it in- to vinegar . It becomes fharp and corroding : and certainly it is more elgible to die immediately by the wound of an enemy , than to decay lingering by poifon , adminiftered from a feeming friend ...
Sivu 55
... lords : whether the humour of the prince , a fum of money to a court - lady or a prime minifter , or a defign of ftrengthening a party op . pofite to the public intereft , ever happened to be motives in thofe advancements , What fhare ...
... lords : whether the humour of the prince , a fum of money to a court - lady or a prime minifter , or a defign of ftrengthening a party op . pofite to the public intereft , ever happened to be motives in thofe advancements , What fhare ...
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Sivu 121 - The other project was a scheme for entirely abolishing all/ words whatsoever; and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health as well as brevity. For it is plain that every word we speak is in some degree a diminution of our lungs by corrosion, and consequently contributes to the shortening of our lives.
Sivu 276 - I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever: therefore I advise him to consider of it, and settle his affairs in time.
Sivu 118 - he had been thirty years employing his thoughts for the improvement of human life." He had two large rooms full of wonderful curiosities, and fifty men at work. Some were condensing air into a dry tangible substance, by extracting the nitre, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate ; others softening marble for pillows and pincushions ; others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse, to preserve them from foundering.
Sivu 365 - Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Sivu 205 - It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again : and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice, and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions, and the judges never fail of directing accordingly.
Sivu 65 - I told him of an invention, discovered between three and four hundred years ago, to make a certain powder, into an heap of which the smallest spark of fire falling, would kindle the whole in a moment, although it were as big as a mountain, and make it all fly up in the air together, with a noise and agitation greater than thunder.
Sivu 161 - When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.
Sivu 228 - As these noble Houyhnhnms are endowed by nature with a general disposition to all virtues, and have no conceptions or ideas of what is evil in a rational creature; so their grand maxim is, to cultivate reason, and to be wholly governed by it.
Sivu 116 - It is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop : however, it is not doubted that this invention may be capable of great improvement. I...
Sivu 204 - I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves.