The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen Volumes. ...John Donadlson [sic], London, 1774 |
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... court of juf- tice . Fifthly , Whoever beareth witness against his neighbour , out of a principle of malice and re- venge , from any old grudge , or hatred to his per- fon ; fuch a man is a falfe witnefs in the fight of God , although ...
... court of juf- tice . Fifthly , Whoever beareth witness against his neighbour , out of a principle of malice and re- venge , from any old grudge , or hatred to his per- fon ; fuch a man is a falfe witnefs in the fight of God , although ...
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... court of confcience , where falfe fwearing , and a thousand vile artifices , ( that are well known , and can hard- ly be avoided in human courts of juftice ) would a- vail nothing ; how many would be ejected with in- famy and difgrace ...
... court of confcience , where falfe fwearing , and a thousand vile artifices , ( that are well known , and can hard- ly be avoided in human courts of juftice ) would a- vail nothing ; how many would be ejected with in- famy and difgrace ...
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... court and kingdom feem difpofed to modera- tion with regard to diffenters , more perhaps than is agreeable to the hot unreasonable temper of fome mistaken men among us ; therefore , under the shelter of that popular opinion , he ...
... court and kingdom feem difpofed to modera- tion with regard to diffenters , more perhaps than is agreeable to the hot unreasonable temper of fome mistaken men among us ; therefore , under the shelter of that popular opinion , he ...
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... court of France , that ' they can refufe them nothing . Such a licence feemeth to give encouragement to ' the people of Ireland to continue Roman Catholics , fince they are fure to meet with a provifion both in the French and Spanish ...
... court of France , that ' they can refufe them nothing . Such a licence feemeth to give encouragement to ' the people of Ireland to continue Roman Catholics , fince they are fure to meet with a provifion both in the French and Spanish ...
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... court by such naufeous , dishonest adulation , as , I am fure , gives the most offence to thofe perfons , to whom it is paid . Let them throw as much foul dirt at me as they please . Let Let them charge me with defigns , which never en ...
... court by such naufeous , dishonest adulation , as , I am fure , gives the most offence to thofe perfons , to whom it is paid . Let them throw as much foul dirt at me as they please . Let Let them charge me with defigns , which never en ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 209 - I conceive their refinements were grounded upon reason, and that a little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious, and low.
Página 19 - from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor " riches, feed me with food convenient for me : left I be " full, and deny thee, and fay, Who is the Lord ? or left " I be poor, and fteal, and take the name of my God in " vain," On the fame thing is founded the advice of Solomon, with regard to the fin of fenfuality : Proverbs xxiii.
Página 205 - And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid : nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves.
Página 38 - And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep : and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Página 359 - The great question^ whether the number of men in Spain and Portugal, at the time of the battle of Almanza, was but 8600, when there ought to have been 29,600, was carried on Tuesday in the affirmative, against the court, without a division, which was occasioned by Sir Thomas Hanmer's oratory.
Página 206 - ... ready to lapse into barbarity. This, among the Romans, was the raillery of slaves, of which we have many instances in Plautus. It seems to have been introduced among us by Cromwell,* who, by preferring the scum of the people, made it a court entertainment...
Página 214 - He seems to be but an ill dissembler, and an ill liar, although they are the two talents he most practises, and most values himself upon. The ends he has gained by lying, appear to be more owing to the frequency, than the art of them : his lies being sometimes detected in an hour, often in a day, and always in a week.
Página 169 - London, never failed to draw after him a great crowd of boys, and other young people, who constantly attended at his lodgings, and followed him with huzzas, as he went to court, or returned from it. As he was a man of humour, he would always thank them for their civilities, when he left them at the door, to go in to the king ; and would let them know exactly at what hour he intended to come out again, and return to his lodgings.
Página 202 - Of such mighty importance every man is to himself, and ready to think he is so to others; without once making this easy and obvious reflection, that his affairs can have no more weight with other men, than theirs have with him; and how little that is, he is sensible enough.
Página 202 - ... just as they happened; but he would have his own way. Others make a vanity of telling their faults; they are the strangest men in the world; they cannot dissemble; they own it is a folly; they have lost abundance of advantages by it; but if you would give them the world...