The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 - 2984 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxxvi
Jonathan Swift. WHATEVER excellence we poffefs , or whatever honours we obtain , the pleasure which they produce , is all rela- tive to fome particular favourite , with whom we are tenderly connected , either by friendship or by love ...
Jonathan Swift. WHATEVER excellence we poffefs , or whatever honours we obtain , the pleasure which they produce , is all rela- tive to fome particular favourite , with whom we are tenderly connected , either by friendship or by love ...
الصفحة xxxviii
... pleasures of a carnival , painted on the infide of the lid . This prefent he fhewed one day to Harley ; who having admired the painting " 6 and " and the crew all against them . Lord Sommers has been twice " in the Queen's clofet , once ...
... pleasures of a carnival , painted on the infide of the lid . This prefent he fhewed one day to Harley ; who having admired the painting " 6 and " and the crew all against them . Lord Sommers has been twice " in the Queen's clofet , once ...
الصفحة xxxix
... pleasures ; but I care not . ” [ Let . to S. Feb. 17. 1710. D. S. p . 322. ] IN the fummer of 1711 , he forefaw the ruin of the miniftry , by thofe mifunderstandings among themselves which at last affected it ; and it was not only his ...
... pleasures ; but I care not . ” [ Let . to S. Feb. 17. 1710. D. S. p . 322. ] IN the fummer of 1711 , he forefaw the ruin of the miniftry , by thofe mifunderstandings among themselves which at last affected it ; and it was not only his ...
الصفحة xliii
... pleasure than he would have done a fettle- ment with much less power and profit in England . He immediately croffed the channel to take poffeffion of his new dignity ; but did not stay in Ireland more than a fortnight , being urged by ...
... pleasure than he would have done a fettle- ment with much less power and profit in England . He immediately croffed the channel to take poffeffion of his new dignity ; but did not stay in Ireland more than a fortnight , being urged by ...
الصفحة xliv
... pleasure and confidence returns , and mutually inclines them to fecure , by an accommo- dation , that which they feel they cannot lose without re- gret . SWIFT foon after followed them ; but was told by Lord Bolingbroke , that his ...
... pleasure and confidence returns , and mutually inclines them to fecure , by an accommo- dation , that which they feel they cannot lose without re- gret . SWIFT foon after followed them ; but was told by Lord Bolingbroke , that his ...
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الصفحة 260 - But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
الصفحة 259 - And by chance there came down a certain priest that way ; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.
الصفحة 259 - ... .And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him ; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again I will repay thee.
الصفحة 259 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
الصفحة 105 - These never examine farther than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell, or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies ; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate that they are not of the same consistence quite through.
الصفحة 105 - Now, I take all this to be the last degree of perverting nature; one of whose eternal laws it is, to put her best furniture forward. And therefore, in order to save the charges of all such expensive anatomy for the time to come, I do here think fit to inform the reader, that in such conclusions as these, reason is certainly in the right, and that in most corporeal beings, which have fallen under my...
الصفحة 146 - Things were at this crisis when a material accident fell out. For upon the highest corner of a large window there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant.
الصفحة 104 - ... whether things that have place in the imagination may not as properly be said to exist as those that are seated in the memory...
الصفحة 190 - For it is confidently reported, that two young gentlemen of real hopes, bright wit, and profound judgment, who, upon a thorough examination of causes and effects, and by the mere force of natural abilities, without the least tincture of learning...
الصفحة lxxxiv - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.