The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, 1784 |
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... town , he thall find the greater number of those who make a figure , to be a species of men quite different from any that were ever known before the Revolution ; confifting either of generals and colonels , or of thofe , whose whole ...
... town , he thall find the greater number of those who make a figure , to be a species of men quite different from any that were ever known before the Revolution ; confifting either of generals and colonels , or of thofe , whose whole ...
Σελίδα 14
... town , by obfer- ving the different fhapes , fizes , and colours of thofe fwarms of lies , which buzz about the heads of fome people , like flies about a horfe's ears in fummer ; or thofe legions hovering every afternoon in Exchange ...
... town , by obfer- ving the different fhapes , fizes , and colours of thofe fwarms of lies , which buzz about the heads of fome people , like flies about a horfe's ears in fummer ; or thofe legions hovering every afternoon in Exchange ...
Σελίδα 54
... town , and perhaps be the most effectual means to reconcile us . But I am apt to think , that men of great genius , are hardly brought to prostitute their pens in a very odious caufe ; which , befides , is more properly un- dertaken by ...
... town , and perhaps be the most effectual means to reconcile us . But I am apt to think , that men of great genius , are hardly brought to prostitute their pens in a very odious caufe ; which , befides , is more properly un- dertaken by ...
Σελίδα 65
... town coft more men ' and money than it was worth to take it ; or that fuch an opportunity was loft of fighting the enemy ; they prefently reprove us , and often with juftice enough , for meddling in matters out of our fphere ; and ...
... town coft more men ' and money than it was worth to take it ; or that fuch an opportunity was loft of fighting the enemy ; they prefently reprove us , and often with juftice enough , for meddling in matters out of our fphere ; and ...
Σελίδα 129
... towns in Mefopotamia to “ furrender , for which frequent fupplications have " been decreed by the fenate . Yet , with all thefe " qualities , and this merit , give me leave to fay , 86 you are neither beloved by the Patricians nor Ple ...
... towns in Mefopotamia to “ furrender , for which frequent fupplications have " been decreed by the fenate . Yet , with all thefe " qualities , and this merit , give me leave to fay , 86 you are neither beloved by the Patricians nor Ple ...
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Σελίδα 73 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood, after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Σελίδα 227 - Whig, that the more revolutions the better ; which, how odd a maxim soever in appearance, I take to be the true characteristic of the party. A dog loves to turn round often; yet after certain revolutions he lies down to rest: but heads under the...
Σελίδα 185 - The two houses of parliament, in an address to the queen, declared their belief, that Mr. Harley's fidelity to her majesty, and zeal for her service, had drawn upon him the hatred of all the abettors of popery and faction*.