The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author, Τόμος 4Derby, 1859 |
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Σελίδα 12
... exertion of the prerogative , and quarrel at a necessity which their Charles Seymour , duke of Somerset , master of the horse . By creating twelve new peers . own violence , inflamed by the treachery of others , 12 LETTER TO A WHIG LORD .
... exertion of the prerogative , and quarrel at a necessity which their Charles Seymour , duke of Somerset , master of the horse . By creating twelve new peers . own violence , inflamed by the treachery of others , 12 LETTER TO A WHIG LORD .
Σελίδα 17
... duke of Marlborough till . he had done something to deserve so great a reward ; and then it was granted nemine contradicente . We opposed repealing the test ; which would level the church established with every snivelling sect in the ...
... duke of Marlborough till . he had done something to deserve so great a reward ; and then it was granted nemine contradicente . We opposed repealing the test ; which would level the church established with every snivelling sect in the ...
Σελίδα 19
... duke of Marlborough , and the present negotiations of peace . I shall not say anything further upon these heads ; only as to the second , which concerns the duke of Marlborough , give LETTER TO A WHIG LORD . 19.
... duke of Marlborough , and the present negotiations of peace . I shall not say anything further upon these heads ; only as to the second , which concerns the duke of Marlborough , give LETTER TO A WHIG LORD . 19.
Σελίδα 20
... duke of Marlborough , give me leave to observe , that there is no kingdom or state in Christendom where a person in such circumstances would have been so gently treated . But it is the misfortune of princes that the effects of their ...
... duke of Marlborough , give me leave to observe , that there is no kingdom or state in Christendom where a person in such circumstances would have been so gently treated . But it is the misfortune of princes that the effects of their ...
Σελίδα 28
... duke of Gloucester , which had a little preface of its own , and was omitted , upon mature deliberation , when those sermons were gathered up into a volume ; though , con- sidering the bulk , it could hardly be spared . It was a great ...
... duke of Gloucester , which had a little preface of its own , and was omitted , upon mature deliberation , when those sermons were gathered up into a volume ; though , con- sidering the bulk , it could hardly be spared . It was a great ...
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Σελίδα 634 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh...
Σελίδα 636 - Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand ; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive : for the heart of this people is •waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed ; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Σελίδα 44 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Σελίδα 634 - Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded ; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof ; I also will laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh...
Σελίδα 176 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Σελίδα 602 - ... in trees nor hedges ; and, by running into the fancy of grazing, after the manner of the Scythians, are every day depopulating the country. We are so far from having a king to reside among us, that even the viceroy is generally absent four-fifths of his time in the government.
Σελίδα 602 - Thus we are in the condition of patients, who have physic sent them by doctors at a distance, strangers to their constitution and the nature of their disease...
Σελίδα 209 - Furies reigned in her breast, the most mortal enemies of all softer passions, which were sordid Avarice, disdainful Pride, and ungovernable Rage...
Σελίδα 500 - After many hours tossing him about, he was carried to the lord mayor, whom they charged to commit him to the Tower, which the Lord Lucas had then seized, and in it had declared for the prince. The lord mayor was so struck with the terror of this rude populace, and with the disgrace of a man who had made all people tremble before him, that he fell into fits upon it, of which he died soon after.
Σελίδα 506 - Never was a greater mixture of honour, virtue, [none,] and good sense, in any one person, than in him : a great man, attended with a sweetness of behaviour and easiness of conversation, which charms all who come near him ; nothing of the stiffness of a statesman, yet the capacity and knowledge of a piercing wit. He speaks French and Italian as well as his native language : and although but one eye, yet he has a most charming countenance, and is the most generally beloved by the ladies of any gentleman...