| Jonathan Swift - 1892 - 500 páginas
...phrensy. Let us therefore now conjecture how it comes to pass, that none of these great prescribers do ever fail providing themselves and their notions...implicit disciples. And, I think, the reason is easy zo to be assigned : for there is a peculiar string in the harmony of human understanding, which, in... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1896 - 328 páginas
...phrensy. Let us therefore now conjecture how it comes to pass that none of these great prescribers do ever fail providing themselves and their notions...individuals, is exactly of the same tuning. This if you can dexterously screw up to its right key, and then strike gently upon it, whenever you have the good fortune... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 478 páginas
...phrenzy. Let us therefore now conjecture how it comes to pass, that none of these great prescribers do ever fail providing themselves and their notions...individuals, is exactly of the same tuning. This, if you can dexterously screw up to its right key, and then strike gently upon it, whenever you have the good fortune... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 444 páginas
...phrenzy. Let us therefore now conjecture how it comes to pass, that none of these great prescribers do ever fail providing themselves and their notions...individuals, is exactly of the same tuning. -This, if you can dexterously screw up to its right key, and then strike gently upon it, whenever you have the good fortune... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1919 - 740 páginas
...phrenzy. Let us therefore now conjecture how it comes to pass, that none of these great prescribers do ever fail providing themselves and their notions...individuals, is exactly of the same tuning. This, if you can dexterously screw up to its right key, and then strike gently upon it, whenever you have the good fortune... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 490 páginas
...themselves and their Notions, with a Number of implicite Disciples. And, I think, the Reason is easie to be assigned : For, there is a peculiar String in...individuals is exactly of the same Tuning. This, if you can dexterously screw up to its right Key, and then strike gently upon it ; Whenever you have the Good... | |
| Anne Elizabeth Burlingame - 1920 - 246 páginas
...have ever failed of providing themselves with implicit disciples ; the reason for this being that " there is a peculiar string in the harmony of human understanding," which, struck in the presence of two individuals of the same tuning, will respond in harmony; but if one chances... | |
| Michael Heyd - 1995 - 344 páginas
...Descartes, Swift analyzed his ability to attract disciples in psychological terms not devoid of irony: For, there is a peculiar String in the Harmony of...individuals is exactly of the same Tuning. This, if you can dexterously screw up to its right Key, and then strike gently upon it; Whenever you have the Good Fortune... | |
| Allen Thiher - 2009 - 368 páginas
...torce ot history. It produces schools of thought, for example, when the vapors strike upon a "pecuhar String in the Harmony of Human Understanding, which...several individuals is exactly of the same tuning" I p. VWl, The vibrating chord induces sympathy in those with the same fihers, producing those groups... | |
| Frank T. Boyle - 2000 - 262 páginas
...usual result of extreme narcissistic ambition. Swift uses a musical metaphor to express the same idea: There is a peculiar string in the harmony of human...individuals, is exactly of the same tuning. This, if you can dexterously screw up to its right key and then strike gently upon it, whenever you have the good fortune... | |
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