The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, Tom 13

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J. Johnson, 1808
 

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Strona 239 - I never heard of the man in my life, yet I find your name as a subscriber. He is too grave a poet for me; and I think among the Mediocrists, in prose as well as verse.
Strona 324 - Of the extent and limits of human reason and science. 2. A view of the useful and therefore attainable, and of the unuseful and therefore unattainable arts. 3. Of the nature, ends, application, and use, of different capacities. 4. Of the use of learning, of the science of the world, and of wit. It will conclude with a satire against the misapplication of all these, exemplified by pictures, characters, and examples.
Strona 3 - But even this trick shall not provoke me to print the true one, which indeed is not proper to be seen till I can be seen no more...
Strona 74 - There is a woman's war declared against me by a certain lord ; * his weapons are the same which women and children use, a pin to scratch, and a squirt to bespatter : I writ a sort of answer, but was ashamed to enter the lists with him, and after shewing it to some people, suppressed it ; otherwise it was such as was worthy of him, and worthy of me.
Strona 240 - Lord Peterborow I went to take a last leave of, at his setting sail for Lisbon: no body can be more wasted, no soul can be more alive. Immediately after the severest operation...
Strona 21 - I am one of the governors of all the hackney coaches, carts, and carriages, round this town, who dare not insult me, like your rascally waggoners or coachmen, but give me the way ; nor is there one lord or squire for a hundred of yours, to turn me out of the road, or run over me with their coaches and six.
Strona 100 - Portique, that a philosopher was not to exempt himself from the duties of society, neither in the community to which he particularly belonged, nor in the great community of mankind. Mencius, and...
Strona 331 - I mean my deafness; and indeed it is that only which discourages me from all thoughts of going to England ; because I am never sure that it may not return in a week. If it were a good honest gout, I could catch an interval to take a voyage, and in a warm lodging get an easy chair, and be able to hear and roar among my friends. As to what you say...
Strona 114 - I know, says he, in one of these, how little regard you pay to writings of this kind : but I imagine, that if you can like any...
Strona 429 - My popularity that you mention is wholly confined to the common people, who are more constant than those we miscall their betters. I walk the streets, and so do my lower friends, from whom, and from whom alone, I have a thousand hats and blessings upon old scores, which those we call the gentry have forgot. But I have not the love, or hardly the civility, of any one man in power or station; and I can boast that I neither visit...

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