The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, 1784 |
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Σελίδα 16
... writer has his readers , fo the greatest liar has his believers : and it often happens , that if a lie be believed only for an hour , it has done its work , and there is no farther occasion for it . Falfhood flies , and truth comes ...
... writer has his readers , fo the greatest liar has his believers : and it often happens , that if a lie be believed only for an hour , it has done its work , and there is no farther occasion for it . Falfhood flies , and truth comes ...
Σελίδα 21
... writers phrase , they gave me occafion for many fpeculations . I obferved , with fingular pleasure , the nature of those things which the owners of them ufually call anfwers , and with what dexterity this matchlefs author had fallen ...
... writers phrase , they gave me occafion for many fpeculations . I obferved , with fingular pleasure , the nature of those things which the owners of them ufually call anfwers , and with what dexterity this matchlefs author had fallen ...
Σελίδα 22
... writers I have fpoken of above , are like a couple of make - bates , who inflame small quarrels by a thousand stories , and by keeping friends at a distance , hinder them from coming to a good un- derstanding ; as they certainly would ...
... writers I have fpoken of above , are like a couple of make - bates , who inflame small quarrels by a thousand stories , and by keeping friends at a distance , hinder them from coming to a good un- derstanding ; as they certainly would ...
Σελίδα 26
... writers of late have made themselves fo merry : I confefs , it is hard to conceive how any law , which the fupreme power makes , may not by the fame power be repealed ; fo that I fhall not de- termine , whether the queen's right be ...
... writers of late have made themselves fo merry : I confefs , it is hard to conceive how any law , which the fupreme power makes , may not by the fame power be repealed ; fo that I fhall not de- termine , whether the queen's right be ...
Σελίδα 39
... writer had fallen into this scheme ; and I happened to light on that part , where he was defcribing a perfon , who , from fmall beginnings , grew ( as I remember ) to be conftable of France , and had a very haughty imperious wife . I ...
... writer had fallen into this scheme ; and I happened to light on that part , where he was defcribing a perfon , who , from fmall beginnings , grew ( as I remember ) to be conftable of France , and had a very haughty imperious wife . I ...
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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*.