 | Jonathan Swift - 1705 - 342 ページ
...Difeafes are by thoufands, betides new and daily Additions : So, all the Virtues that have been ever in Mankind, are to be counted upon a few Fingers, but his Follies and Vices are innumerable, and Time adds hourly to the Heap. Now, the utmoft a poor Poet can do, is to get by heart a Lift of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1755 - 514 ページ
...difeafes are by thoufands, befides new and daily additions ; fo, all the virtues that have been ever in mankind, are to be counted upon a few fingers; but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds, hourly to the heap. Now the utmoft a poor poet can do, is to get by heart a lift of... | |
 | Robert Lowth - 1763 - 226 ページ
...WhatreafonAro* the Church of Rome to talk of modefty in this cafe ?" Tillotfon, Vol. I. Serm. 49. " All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but te or Plural Number ; yet not without regard to the import of the word, as conveying unity or plurality... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 500 ページ
...difeafes are by thoufands, befides new and daily additions ; fo, all the virtues that have been ever in mankind, are to be counted upon a few fingers ; but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds t, hourly hourly to the heap. Now the utmoft a poo'r poet can do, is to get by heart... | |
 | Robert Lowth - 1774 - 168 ページ
...counted upon a few fingers, but bit follies and vices are innumerable." Swift, Preface to Tale of a Tub. Is not mankind in this place a Noun of Multitude,...Pronoun referring to it to be in the Plural Number, dm f \ dither in the Singular or Plural Number; yet not without regard to the import of the word, as... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 376 ページ
...difeafes are by thoufands, befides new and daily additions : fo all the virtues that have been ever in mankind, are to be counted upon a few fingers; but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap. Now, the utmoft a poor poet can do, is to get by heart a lift of... | |
 | Robert Lowth - 1791 - 192 ページ
...give the leaft fignv or intimation of being a traytor in his heart." Addifon, Freeholder, N° 52^ " All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but bit folliesand vices are innumerable." Swift, Preface to Tale of a Tub. Is not mankind in this 'place... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Haussner - 1798 - 1148 ページ
...him find his finders. 3d) reitt tön fcbon arbeiten lebten (ibm fd)on $u fd)affen Qu tjun] geben).— All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers , but their follies and vices are innumerable. 8Ше ífcugcnbetT Ьес SXenfcben tonnen an einem фааг... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1798 - 278 ページ
...cifes are by thoufUmls, bcfules new and daily additions : fo all the virtues, that have been ever in mankind, are to be counted upon a few fingers ; but his follies and vice* are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap. Now, the utmoft a poor poet can do, is to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 330 ページ
...for proceeding in this manner ?" " There is indeed no constitution so tame and careless of their own defence." " All the virtues of mankind are to be counted...not mankind in this place a noun of multitude, and such as requires the pronoun referring it to be in the plural number, their ? RULE v. Pronouns must... | |
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... all the virtues that have been ever in mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap. 
