The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
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... opinion , to fuffer my travels to be pu- blished . Pray bring to your mind how often I defired you to confider , when you infisted on the motive of public good , that the Yahoos were a fpecies of animals utterly incapable of amendment ...
... opinion , to fuffer my travels to be pu- blished . Pray bring to your mind how often I defired you to confider , when you infisted on the motive of public good , that the Yahoos were a fpecies of animals utterly incapable of amendment ...
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... opinion , it was extremely prudent , as well as gene- rous ; for fuppofing thofe people had endeavoured to kill me with their fpears and arrows while I was afleep , I fhould certainly have awaked with the firft fenfe of fmart , which ...
... opinion , it was extremely prudent , as well as gene- rous ; for fuppofing thofe people had endeavoured to kill me with their fpears and arrows while I was afleep , I fhould certainly have awaked with the firft fenfe of fmart , which ...
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... opinion of himself and his fubjects . He defired I would not take it ill , if he gave orders to certain proper officers to fearch me ; for proba- bly I might carry about me feveral weapons , which must needs be dangerous things , if ...
... opinion of himself and his fubjects . He defired I would not take it ill , if he gave orders to certain proper officers to fearch me ; for proba- bly I might carry about me feveral weapons , which must needs be dangerous things , if ...
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... opinion , because he affu- red us ( if we understood him right , for he expreffed himfelf very imperfectly ) that he feldom did any thing without confulting it . He called it his oracle ; and faid it pointed out the time for every ...
... opinion , because he affu- red us ( if we understood him right , for he expreffed himfelf very imperfectly ) that he feldom did any thing without confulting it . He called it his oracle ; and faid it pointed out the time for every ...
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... opinion , if I am not partial , the fecond after the treasurer ; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par . THESE diverfions are often attended with fatal acci- dents , whereof great numbers are on record . I myself have feen ...
... opinion , if I am not partial , the fecond after the treasurer ; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par . THESE diverfions are often attended with fatal acci- dents , whereof great numbers are on record . I myself have feen ...
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170 ページ - The professor then desired me to observe, for he was going to set his engine at work. The pupils at his command took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded...
126 ページ - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
13 ページ - Fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom ; but when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth, and by this time the storm was much abated.
210 ページ - In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end...
380 ページ - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
172 ページ - However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things, which hath only this inconvenience attending it, that if a man's business be very great and of various kinds, he must be obliged in proportion to carry a greater bundle of things upon his back, unless he can afford one or two strong servants to attend him.
170 ページ - The first professor I saw was in a very large room, with forty pupils about him. After salutation, observing me to look earnestly upon a frame which took up the greatest part of both the length and breadth of the room, he said, perhaps I might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge by practical and mechanical operations.
166 ページ - Every room hath in it one or more projectors, and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms.
291 ページ - ... king, they set up a rotten plank or a stone for a memorial, they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more by force for a sample, return home, and get their pardon. Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.
172 ページ - 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.