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 6
... believe them , although attested by millions . I reflected what a mortification it must prove to me , to appear as inconfiderable in this na- tion , as one fingle Lilliputian would be among us . But this I conceived was to be the leaft ...
... believe them , although attested by millions . I reflected what a mortification it must prove to me , to appear as inconfiderable in this na- tion , as one fingle Lilliputian would be among us . But this I conceived was to be the leaft ...
Sivu 32
... believe it was near a minute before any one knew what was become of me ; for I thought it below me to cry out . But , as princes feldom get their meat hot , my legs were not fcalded , only my ftockings and breeches in a fad condition ...
... believe it was near a minute before any one knew what was become of me ; for I thought it below me to cry out . But , as princes feldom get their meat hot , my legs were not fcalded , only my ftockings and breeches in a fad condition ...
Sivu 47
Jonathan Swift. it more prudent to fubmit . I have good reafon to believe , that he took me for a young one of his own fpecies , by his often ftroaking my face very gently with , his other paw . In thefe diverfions he was interrupted by ...
Jonathan Swift. it more prudent to fubmit . I have good reafon to believe , that he took me for a young one of his own fpecies , by his often ftroaking my face very gently with , his other paw . In thefe diverfions he was interrupted by ...
Sivu 66
... believe , upon a strict enquiry , thofe quar- rels might be fhewn as ill - grounded among us , as they are among that people * . Ás to their military affairs , they boaft that the King's army , confifts of an hundred and seventy - fix ...
... believe , upon a strict enquiry , thofe quar- rels might be fhewn as ill - grounded among us , as they are among that people * . Ás to their military affairs , they boaft that the King's army , confifts of an hundred and seventy - fix ...
Sivu 112
... believe , that God may have abfolutely denied us the perfect knowledge of many points in philo- fophy , fo that we fhall never arrive at that perfection , however cer- tain we may fuppofe ourselves of having attained to it already ...
... believe , that God may have abfolutely denied us the perfect knowledge of many points in philo- fophy , fo that we fhall never arrive at that perfection , however cer- tain we may fuppofe ourselves of having attained to it already ...
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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.