The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, 第 12 巻W. Durell, 1812 |
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167 ページ - For, in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery : but in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.
97 ページ - Therefore I do most earnestly exhort you, as men, as Christians, as parents, and as lovers of your country, to read this paper with the utmost attention, or get it read to you by others...
16 ページ - oppression makes a wise man mad;" therefore, consequently speaking, the reason why some men are not mad is because they are not wise. However it were to be wished, that oppression would in time teach a little wisdom to fools.
130 ページ - Am I a freeman in England and do I become a slave in six hours by crossing the Channel...
153 ページ - And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail ; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam ; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron : and one bearing a shield...
103 ページ - Wood's money. And I hope we shall have the grace to take it for no more than it is worth. They say Squire Conolly has sixteen thousand pounds a year...
298 ページ - Ireland is the only kingdom I ever heard or read of, either in ancient or modern story, which was denied the liberty of exporting their native commodities and manufactures wherever they pleased, except to countries at war with their own prince or state : yet this privilege, by the superiority of mere power, is refused us in the most momentous parts of commerce ; besides an act of navigation, to which we never consented, pinned down upon us, and rigorously executed ; and a thousand other unexampled...
185 ページ - For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me : they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
167 ページ - I MB Drapier, desire to be excepted, for I declare, next under God, I depend only on the King my sovereign, and on the laws of my own country; and I am so far from depending upon the people of England, that if they should ever rebel against my sovereign (which God forbid) I would be ready at the first command from His Majesty to take arms against them, as some of my countrymen did against theirs at Preston.
120 ページ - They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.