 | Samuel Butler - 1923 - 314 páginas
...the restoring of that would be, indeed, a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations, to destroy at one blow all the wit and half the learning of the kingdom, to break the entire frame and constitution of things, to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences, with the professors of them; in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 páginas
...the restoring of that would indeed be a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations; to destroy at one blow all the wit, and half the learning of the kingdom; to break the entire frame and constitution of things; to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences with the professors of them; in... | |
 | Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 páginas
...the restoring of that would indeed be a wild project ; it would be to dig up foundations ; to destroy at one blow all the wit and half the learning of the kingdom; to break the entire frame and constitution of things; to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences, with the professors of them; in... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1925 - 348 páginas
...upon men's beliefs and actions." This, he goes on to show, would be "to dig up foundations; to destroy at one blow all the wit and half the learning of the kingdom." It would deprive the freethinkers of the best object of their wit, for "who would ever have suspected... | |
 | Norman Furlong - 1946 - 196 páginas
...the restoring of that, would indeed be a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations, to destroy at one blow all the wit and half the learning of the kingdom' — to ruin trade, to empty the lawcourts and the stock exchange, and so on. As we read on, we realise that... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 páginas
...the Restoring of that, would indeed be a wild Project; it would be to dig up Foundations; to destroy at one Blow all the Wit, and half the Learning of the Kingdom; to break the entire Frame and Constitution of Things. "M But what distinguishes Swift's from Gibbon's use of primitive Christianity... | |
 | Thomas M. Woodman - 1989 - 180 páginas
...Christianity" would indeed be a wild Project; it would be to dig up Foundations; to destroy at one Blow aJJ the Wit, and half the Learning of the Kingdom; to break the entire Frame and Constitution of Things; to ruin Trade, extinguish Arts and Sciences with the Professors of them; in... | |
 | Greg Harkin - 2001 - 340 páginas
...Restoration of that, would indeed be a wild Project; it would be to dig up Foundations; to destroy at one Blow all the Wit, and half the Learning of the Kingdom; to break the entire Frame and Constitution of Things; to ruin Trade, extinguish Arts and Sciences with the Professors of them; in... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 páginas
...the restoring of that, would indeed be a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations: to destroy at one blow all the wit, and half the learning of the kingdom: to break the entire frame and constitution of things: to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences, with the professors of them; in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 290 páginas
...the restoring of that would indeed be a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations; to destroy at one blow all the wit, and half the learning of the kingdom; to break the entire frame and constitution of things; to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences with the professors of them; in... | |
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To offer at the restoring of that, would indeed be a wild project: it would be to dig up foundations ; to destroy at one blow all the wit, and half the learning of the kingdom ; to break the entire frame and constitution of things; to ruin trade, extinguish... 
