 It is incredible to conceive the effect his writings have had on the town ; how many thousand follies they have either quite banished, or given a very great check to ; how much countenance they have added to virtue and religion ; how many people they...  The Works - Page 158by Jonathan Swift - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 lehte
...rendered happy, by ihewing them it was their own fault if they were not fo ; and, laftly, how intirely they have convinced our fops and young fellows of...value and advantages of learning. • He has indeed refcued it out of the hands of pedants and fools, and difcovered the true method of making it amiable... | |
 | John Nichols - 1780 - 434 lehte
...have rendered " happy, by fhewing them it was their own fault if they " were not fo ; and, laftly, how entirely they have convinced " our fops and young...value and advantages of " learning. He has indeed refcued it out of the hands of si pedants and fools, and difcovered the true method of " making it... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 lehte
...very great check to ; how much countenance they have added to virtue and religion ; how many people they have rendered happy, by showing them it was their...they have convinced our fops and young fellows of the valve and advantages -of teaming. " He has in'deed rescued it out of the -hands of pedants and fools,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 lehte
...very great check to: how much countenance they have added to virtue and religion ; how many people they have rendered happy, by showing them it was their...fellows of the value and advantages of learning. He lias indeed rescued it out of the hands of pedants and fools, and discovered the true method of making... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 324 lehte
...very great check to : how much countenance they have added to virtue and religion ; how many people they have rendered happy, by showing them it was their own fault if 1hey were not so ; and lastly, how entirely they have convinced our fops and young fellows of the value... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 372 lehte
...countenance they have added to virtue and religion ; how many people they have rendered happy, by shewing them it was their own fault if they were not so; and...how entirely they have convinced our fops and young fell&ws of the value and advantages of learning. " ' He has indeed rescued it out of the hands of pedants... | |
 | 1832 - 406 lehte
...countenance they have added to virtue and religion ; how many people they have rendered happy by showing that it was their own fault if they were not so ; and lastly...fellows of the value and advantages of learning." The Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian — the three periodical papers to which Steele and Addison were... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - 1851 - 484 lehte
...countenance they have added to virtue and religion ; how many people they have rendered happy by showing that it was their own fault if they were not so ; and lastly,...fellows of the value and advantages of learning.' " (2) Memoir of Dr. Peunecuick, p. 24. (A) Life, vol. ip 16. that of their friends, — our author's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 lehte
...very great check to; how much countenanee they have added to virtue and religion ; how many people they have rendered happy, by showing them it was their...they were not so; and lastly, how entirely they have convineed our fops and young fellows of the value and advantages of learning. Ho has, indeed, rescued... | |
 | Robert Macoy - 1855 - 566 lehte
...very great check to ; how much countenance they have added to virtue and religion ; how many people they have rendered happy, by showing them it was their...fellows of the value and advantages of learning." — And again: " These writings have set all our wits and men of letters upon a new way of thinking,... | |
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