The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 11Bell, 1907 |
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Page 16
... keep within my depth ; and therefore shall not enter into farther particulars . Neither do I pretend more than to shew the usefulness of this design , and to make some general observations , leaving the rest to that society , which I ...
... keep within my depth ; and therefore shall not enter into farther particulars . Neither do I pretend more than to shew the usefulness of this design , and to make some general observations , leaving the rest to that society , which I ...
Page 30
... keep its own place , as to aspire , and displace others . And the reason is plain , because that is a tendency to the uppermost point , and an approach to perfection ; and therefore , contrary to common opinions , I have ever thought ...
... keep its own place , as to aspire , and displace others . And the reason is plain , because that is a tendency to the uppermost point , and an approach to perfection ; and therefore , contrary to common opinions , I have ever thought ...
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... keep his place on the bench when his brethren left it , but his sense of honour , i.e. his keen appetite ? Does not the stomach alone carry all debates in both Houses , and support parties , and make court parasites lose their dinners ...
... keep his place on the bench when his brethren left it , but his sense of honour , i.e. his keen appetite ? Does not the stomach alone carry all debates in both Houses , and support parties , and make court parasites lose their dinners ...
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... keep far from the verge of scandalum magnatum . Retracting , therefore , that hazardous postulatum , I shall venture no farther at present than to say , that perhaps some additional care in educating the sons of nobility , and prin ...
... keep far from the verge of scandalum magnatum . Retracting , therefore , that hazardous postulatum , I shall venture no farther at present than to say , that perhaps some additional care in educating the sons of nobility , and prin ...
Page 56
... keep it always in view . I speak only of those excesses , which are too much the attendants of youth and warmer blood ; for as to the points of honour , truth , justice , and other noble gifts of the mind , wherein the temperature of ...
... keep it always in view . I speak only of those excesses , which are too much the attendants of youth and warmer blood ; for as to the points of honour , truth , justice , and other noble gifts of the mind , wherein the temperature of ...
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