The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 8A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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... study and purfue their own intereft , and who are always ex- ceedingly apt to fufpect any advice that is contrary , or in defiance to a minifterial direction . founded upon He begins by revolution as a been attended Swift's principles ...
... study and purfue their own intereft , and who are always ex- ceedingly apt to fufpect any advice that is contrary , or in defiance to a minifterial direction . founded upon He begins by revolution as a been attended Swift's principles ...
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... study . The best divifion of the fciences is that old one of Plato , into ethics , phyfics , and logic . The feverer philofophers condemn a total application to the two latter , because they have no tendency to mend the heart ; and ...
... study . The best divifion of the fciences is that old one of Plato , into ethics , phyfics , and logic . The feverer philofophers condemn a total application to the two latter , because they have no tendency to mend the heart ; and ...
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... studies and my amusements in writing . Yet , after all , this humdrum way of life might be paffable enough , if you would let me alone . I fhall not be able to relish my wine , my parfons , my horfes , horfes , nor my garden , for three ...
... studies and my amusements in writing . Yet , after all , this humdrum way of life might be paffable enough , if you would let me alone . I fhall not be able to relish my wine , my parfons , my horfes , horfes , nor my garden , for three ...
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... study and retirement . The civilities I have met with from oppofite fets of people , have hindered me from being violent or four to any party ; but at the fame time the obfervations and experiences I cannot but have collected , have ...
... study and retirement . The civilities I have met with from oppofite fets of people , have hindered me from being violent or four to any party ; but at the fame time the obfervations and experiences I cannot but have collected , have ...
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... studies . The only cour . tiers I know , or have the honour to call my friends , are John Gay and Mr Bowry . The former is at prefent fo employed in the elevated airs of his opera , and the lat- ter in the exaltation of his high dignity ...
... studies . The only cour . tiers I know , or have the honour to call my friends , are John Gay and Mr Bowry . The former is at prefent fo employed in the elevated airs of his opera , and the lat- ter in the exaltation of his high dignity ...
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Página 92 - I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter, and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribbon, or of a coach and six horses.
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Página 122 - I dislike nothing in your letter but an affected apology for bad writing, bad spelling, and a bad pen; which you pretend Mr Gay found fault with; Wherein you affront Mr Gay, you affront me, and you affront yourself.
Página 179 - I see things more in the whole, more consistent, and more clearly deduced from, and related to each other. But what I gain on the side of philosophy, I lose on the side of poetry : the flowers are gone, when the fruits begin to ripen, and the fruits perhaps will never ripen perfectly.
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Página 33 - I often threatened myself with the journey, and am every summer practising to ride and get health to bear it : the only inconvenience is, that I grow old in the experiment. Although I care not to talk to you as a divine, yet I hope you have not been author of your colic : do you drink bad wine, or keep bad company? Are you not as many years older as I ? It will not be always et tibi quos mihi dempserit apponet annos.
Página 31 - I dare not venture to publish them : For however orthodox they may be while I am now writing, they may become criminal enough to bring me into trouble before midsummer.
Página 155 - 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...
Página 194 - Patron, and then descended to be my Friend. It is a great favour of Heaven, that your health grows better by the addition of years. I have...