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 15
... whole fcene of this voyage made fo ftrong an impreffion on my mind , and is fo deeply fixed in my memory , that , in committing it to paper , I did not omit one material circunftance : however , up- on à strict review , I blotted out ...
... whole fcene of this voyage made fo ftrong an impreffion on my mind , and is fo deeply fixed in my memory , that , in committing it to paper , I did not omit one material circunftance : however , up- on à strict review , I blotted out ...
Sivu 16
... whole kingdom . The word imports what the Latins call rannuculus , the Italians homunceletino , and the Eng- lith mannikin . To her I chiefly owe my preferva- tion in that country ; we never parted while I was there ; I called her my ...
... whole kingdom . The word imports what the Latins call rannuculus , the Italians homunceletino , and the Eng- lith mannikin . To her I chiefly owe my preferva- tion in that country ; we never parted while I was there ; I called her my ...
Sivu 17
... whole matter , which the had cunningly picked out from her mother . The- poor girl laid me on her bofom , and fell a weeping with fhame and grief . She apprehended fome mis- chief would happen to me from rude vulgar folks , who might ...
... whole matter , which the had cunningly picked out from her mother . The- poor girl laid me on her bofom , and fell a weeping with fhame and grief . She apprehended fome mis- chief would happen to me from rude vulgar folks , who might ...
Sivu 28
... whole by birds or vermin , must confefs , that habit only could have enabled him to endure the fight of the mang- led bones and flesh of a dead carcafe , which every day cover his table : and he , who reflects on the number of lives ...
... whole by birds or vermin , must confefs , that habit only could have enabled him to endure the fight of the mang- led bones and flesh of a dead carcafe , which every day cover his table : and he , who reflects on the number of lives ...
Sivu 34
... whole extent of this prince's do- minions reacheth about fix thousand miles in length , and from three to five in breadth . From whence I cannot but conclude , that our geographers of Europe are in a great error , by fuppofing nothing ...
... whole extent of this prince's do- minions reacheth about fix thousand miles in length , and from three to five in breadth . From whence I cannot but conclude , that our geographers of Europe are in a great error , by fuppofing nothing ...
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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.