The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volumen13W. Bowyer, C. Bathurst, W. Owen, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis, and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder and Company and B. Collins., 1768 - 464 páginas |
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... believe , there are few mafters that now hear me who are not convinced by their own experience . And I am very confident , that more families , of all degrees , have been ruined by the corruptions of fervants , than by all other caufes ...
... believe , there are few mafters that now hear me who are not convinced by their own experience . And I am very confident , that more families , of all degrees , have been ruined by the corruptions of fervants , than by all other caufes ...
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... believe , that this neglect of preaching hath very much oc- cafioned the great decay of religion among us . To this may be imputed no fmall part of that contempt fome men beftow on the clergy ; for whoever talketh with- out being ...
... believe , that this neglect of preaching hath very much oc- cafioned the great decay of religion among us . To this may be imputed no fmall part of that contempt fome men beftow on the clergy ; for whoever talketh with- out being ...
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... believe ) he leads the reader , however , by the hand , to make applications against the English clergy ; and then he never faileth to triumph , as if he had made a very fhrewd and notable ftroke . And because the court and kingdom ...
... believe ) he leads the reader , however , by the hand , to make applications against the English clergy ; and then he never faileth to triumph , as if he had made a very fhrewd and notable ftroke . And because the court and kingdom ...
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... believe , would truft their fouls , fortunes , or bodies , to his direction ; be- cause that power is neither fit to judge or teach those qualifications which are ab- folutely neceffary to the feveral profeffions . Put the cafe that ...
... believe , would truft their fouls , fortunes , or bodies , to his direction ; be- cause that power is neither fit to judge or teach those qualifications which are ab- folutely neceffary to the feveral profeffions . Put the cafe that ...
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... believe , there is hardly one divine in ten that ever once thought of this matter . Yet to fee a large fwelling volume written only to encounter this doctrine , what could one think less than that the whole body of the clergy were ...
... believe , there is hardly one divine in ten that ever once thought of this matter . Yet to fee a large fwelling volume written only to encounter this doctrine , what could one think less than that the whole body of the clergy were ...
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Página 357 - 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 343 - 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 33 - 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 354 - He is without the sense of shame, or glory, as some men are without the sense of smelling ; and therefore, a good name to him, is no more than a precious ointment would be, to these.
Página 282 - Christians, to keep the poor bairns out of danger. All this could never prevail on him to part with his beard; but yet, in compliance to his...
Página 64 - 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 355 - ... he is damnably mauled ;" and then, with the easiest transition in the world, ask about the weather, or. time of the day...
Página 335 - For, nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both, who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour? are not so much as tolerable.
Página 463 - ... if the wisest man would at any time utter his thoughts in the crude indigested manner as they come into his head, he would be looked upon as raving mad.
Página 415 - ... abstracts, abridgments, summaries, &c. which are admirable expedients for being very learned with little or no reading ; and have the same use with burning-glasses, to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.