The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, 1. köideW. Durell, 1812 |
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... considered that the same act is justice if the subject is a criminal , which would have been murder if executed on the innocent . " Lord Orrery has been so far from acting upon the principle on which Mr. Pope framed this petition in his ...
... considered that the same act is justice if the subject is a criminal , which would have been murder if executed on the innocent . " Lord Orrery has been so far from acting upon the principle on which Mr. Pope framed this petition in his ...
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... considered as afford- ing only entertainment to the idle , or speculative know . ledge to the curious ; it most forcibly impresses a sense of the vanity and brevity of life , which the moralist and the divine have always thought an ...
... considered as afford- ing only entertainment to the idle , or speculative know . ledge to the curious ; it most forcibly impresses a sense of the vanity and brevity of life , which the moralist and the divine have always thought an ...
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... considered as an interesting part of it , and at the same time will be a proper appendage to all former editions ; being strictly , what it professes to be , a Collection of Miscellanies by Dr. Swift and his most intimate friends ...
... considered as an interesting part of it , and at the same time will be a proper appendage to all former editions ; being strictly , what it professes to be , a Collection of Miscellanies by Dr. Swift and his most intimate friends ...
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... considered as a specimen of his la- bours . " It is much to be lamented indeed that he did not fol- low the advice given him in the year 1733 : ' I have long had it at heart , ' says his friend Mr. Ford , ' to see your works collected ...
... considered as a specimen of his la- bours . " It is much to be lamented indeed that he did not fol- low the advice given him in the year 1733 : ' I have long had it at heart , ' says his friend Mr. Ford , ' to see your works collected ...
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... considered that these helps are designed for the use of such as are not general read- ers , it is presumed those who are more informed will par- don the insertion of some circumstances , which to them may appear superfluous . " To these ...
... considered that these helps are designed for the use of such as are not general read- ers , it is presumed those who are more informed will par- don the insertion of some circumstances , which to them may appear superfluous . " To these ...
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Page 229 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners ; generous, and a despiser of money.
Page 116 - than I can say ; I never remember any " weather that was not too hot, or too cold ; too wet, " or too dry ; but, however God Almighty contrives " it, at the end of the year tis all very well.
Page 139 - Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when Sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons. I have plucked up my spirit since then, faith ; he spoiled a fine gentleman.
Page 242 - I was to see a poor poet, one Mr Diaper, in a nasty garret, very sick. I gave him twenty guineas from Lord Bolingbroke, and disposed the other sixty to two other authors...
Page 313 - I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I caB say is, that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is, and your family. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few; few and miserable they must be.
Page 314 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 209 - I take nothing ill of him but his not giving me timely notice, as he promised to do, if he found the Queen would do nothing for me.
Page 267 - ... author's design was to bring in the Pretender; although there was not a single syllable of party in the whole treatise, and although it was known that the most eminent of those who professed his own principles, publicly disallowed his proceedings.
Page 136 - MD's letter ? one of these oddcome-shortlies. This is a week old, you see, and no farther yet. Mr Harley desired I would dine with him again today ; but I refused him, for I fell out with him yesterday, and will not see him again till he makes me amends ; and so I go to bed.
Page 295 - Motte 8 received the copy (he tells me) he knew not from whence, nor from whom, dropped at his house in the dark, from a hackney coach : by computing the time, I found it was after you left England, so, for my part, I suspend my judgment.