The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised, in Twelve Volumes. Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volumen11C. Bathurst, T. Osborne, W. Bowyer, J. Hinton, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Davis and C. Reymers, and J. Dodsley., 1765 |
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... hand , and my eyes lift up ; yet I fhall feel no more devotion in my heart than I have obferved in my comrades , who have been drunk among common whores the very night before their execution . I can fay fay farther , from my own ...
... hand , and my eyes lift up ; yet I fhall feel no more devotion in my heart than I have obferved in my comrades , who have been drunk among common whores the very night before their execution . I can fay fay farther , from my own ...
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... hands , will be a fufficient an- fwer to it . Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis , oves . N. B. In the following difcourfe the author perfonates a country gentleman in the north of Ireland . And this letter is fuppofed as di- rected to ...
... hands , will be a fufficient an- fwer to it . Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis , oves . N. B. In the following difcourfe the author perfonates a country gentleman in the north of Ireland . And this letter is fuppofed as di- rected to ...
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... hands . The value of one thousand moidores in filver would thus amount , in clear profit , to 37 % . 105. The Shopkeepers , and other traders , who go to London to buy goods , followed the fame practice ; by which we have been driven ...
... hands . The value of one thousand moidores in filver would thus amount , in clear profit , to 37 % . 105. The Shopkeepers , and other traders , who go to London to buy goods , followed the fame practice ; by which we have been driven ...
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... hand to his relation here , entreating him not to think of fuch a voyage , and to difcourage all his friends from at- tempting it . Yet this , although it be a truth well known , hath produced very little effect ; which is no manner of ...
... hand to his relation here , entreating him not to think of fuch a voyage , and to difcourage all his friends from at- tempting it . Yet this , although it be a truth well known , hath produced very little effect ; which is no manner of ...
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... hands with lifting " them to his nofe , and laying one of his " claws on her bofom drew blood ; how- " ever , he let her go , and at the fame time " turned from lier with a fort of contempt , " at which he was not a little mortified ...
... hands with lifting " them to his nofe , and laying one of his " claws on her bofom drew blood ; how- " ever , he let her go , and at the fame time " turned from lier with a fort of contempt , " at which he was not a little mortified ...
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Página 16 - I demand whether I have not as good a Title to Laugh, as Men have to be Ridiculous, and to expose Vice, as another hath to be Vicious.
Página 45 - ... which he told me would save half a mile's riding. This last piece of civility had like to have cost me dear, being once or twice in danger of my neck, by leaping over his ditches, and at last forced to alight in the dirt, when my horse, having slipped his bridle, ran away, and took us up more than an hour to recover him again. It is evident, that none of the absurdities I met with in this visit proceeded from an ill intention, but from a wrong judgment of complaisance, and a misapplication in...
Página 45 - I desired at my usual hour to go to my repose, and was conducted to my chamber by the gentleman, his lady, and the whole train of children. They importuned me to drink...
Página 43 - I should drink it off; for she was sure it would do me good after coming out of the cold air; and I was forced to obey, which absolutely took away my stomach.
Página 51 - If a man of wit, who died forty years ago, were to rise from the grave on purpose, how would he be able to read this letter? and after he had got through that difficulty, how would he be able to understand it...
Página 53 - These are the false Refinements in our Style which you ought to correct: First, by Argument and fair Means; but if those fail, I think you are to make Use of your Authority as Censor, and by an annual Index Expurgatorius...
Página 49 - But instead of giving you a list of the late refinements crept into our language, I here...
Página 43 - ... is employed in laying chains and fetters upon us, in debarring us of our wishes, and in crossing our most reasonable desires and inclinations.
Página 52 - I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.
Página 52 - Battalions: as numerous as they are, if they attack us too frequently in our coffee-houses, we shall certainly put them to flight, and cut off the rear.