The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen Volumes. ...John Donadlson [sic], London, 1774 |
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Página 58
... land , is what no one divine of any reputation . and very few at all , did ever maintain ; and , that their univerfal fentiment in this matter , is fuch as few Proteftants did ever difpute . But , if the author of the Regale , or two or ...
... land , is what no one divine of any reputation . and very few at all , did ever maintain ; and , that their univerfal fentiment in this matter , is fuch as few Proteftants did ever difpute . But , if the author of the Regale , or two or ...
Página 59
... lands , mifapplied to fuperftitious ufes , but even the tithes and glebes , ( the ancient and neceffary fupport of parish priests ) may take away all the reft , whene- ver the lawgivers pleafe , and make the priesthood as primitive , as ...
... lands , mifapplied to fuperftitious ufes , but even the tithes and glebes , ( the ancient and neceffary fupport of parish priests ) may take away all the reft , whene- ver the lawgivers pleafe , and make the priesthood as primitive , as ...
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... land were acquired by the clergy , fo that the great council of the nation was often entirely of churchmen , and ever a confiderable part . But , our prefent confti- tution is an artificial thing , not fairly to be traced , in my ...
... land were acquired by the clergy , fo that the great council of the nation was often entirely of churchmen , and ever a confiderable part . But , our prefent confti- tution is an artificial thing , not fairly to be traced , in my ...
Página 73
... lands were given away , is too great a truth , & c . Page lxxvi . To which I have nothing to plead , ex- cept the zeal I have for the church of England . You will fee fome pages further , what he meaneth by the church ; but it is not ...
... lands were given away , is too great a truth , & c . Page lxxvi . To which I have nothing to plead , ex- cept the zeal I have for the church of England . You will fee fome pages further , what he meaneth by the church ; but it is not ...
Página 75
... lands . Ibid . Which can only be known by examining whe ther men had any power in the state of nature over their own , or others actions in thefe matters . No , that is a wrong method , unless where religion hath not been revealed , in ...
... lands . Ibid . Which can only be known by examining whe ther men had any power in the state of nature over their own , or others actions in thefe matters . No , that is a wrong method , unless where religion hath not been revealed , in ...
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...