Selections from the Journal to Stella: A Tale of a Tub, Personal Letters and Gulliver's TravelsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1901 - 183 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... give an unrivalled picture of London in the last years of Queen Anne . They show the great men of that age in their habit as they lived But above all the pages of the Journal , opened any . where , reveal the heart of the strange and ...
... give an unrivalled picture of London in the last years of Queen Anne . They show the great men of that age in their habit as they lived But above all the pages of the Journal , opened any . where , reveal the heart of the strange and ...
Pagina 8
... give him a ballad and dine with him , but he was not at home ; so I was forced to go to a blind chophouse , and dine for tenpence upon gill ale , bad broth , and three chops of mutton ; and then go reeking from thence to the first ...
... give him a ballad and dine with him , but he was not at home ; so I was forced to go to a blind chophouse , and dine for tenpence upon gill ale , bad broth , and three chops of mutton ; and then go reeking from thence to the first ...
Pagina 11
... give my 8th to the bellman , which I did with my own hands , rather than keep it till next post . The secretary used me with all the kindness in the world . Prior came in after dinner ; and upon an occasion , he ( the secretary ) said ...
... give my 8th to the bellman , which I did with my own hands , rather than keep it till next post . The secretary used me with all the kindness in the world . Prior came in after dinner ; and upon an occasion , he ( the secretary ) said ...
Pagina 15
... gives they are always considerate ; but that he assures me it is granted and done , and past all dis- pute , and desires I will not be in any pain at all . I will write again to the archbishop to- morrow , and tell him this , and I ...
... gives they are always considerate ; but that he assures me it is granted and done , and past all dis- pute , and desires I will not be in any pain at all . I will write again to the archbishop to- morrow , and tell him this , and I ...
Pagina 17
... give me such melan- choly prospects . January 14. O faith , young woman , I want a letter from MD ; it is now nineteen days since I had the last ; and where have I room to answer it , pray ? I hope I shall send this away without any ...
... give me such melan- choly prospects . January 14. O faith , young woman , I want a letter from MD ; it is now nineteen days since I had the last ; and where have I room to answer it , pray ? I hope I shall send this away without any ...
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Pagina 116 - Catholic countries about nine months after Lent, than at any other season; therefore reckoning a year after Lent, the markets will be more glutted than usual, because the number of Popish infants, is at least three to one in this kingdom, and therefore it will have one other collateral advantage by lessening the number of Papists among us.
Pagina 112 - But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed beggars, it is of a much greater extent, and shall take in the whole number of infants at a certain age, who are born of parents in effect as little able to support them, as those who demand our charity in the streets.
Pagina 60 - Look on this globe of earth, you will find it to be a very complete and fashionable dress. What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green? or the sea, but a waistcoat of water-tabby.
Pagina 115 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.
Pagina 130 - I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies: but the charge of maintaining me (although I had a very scanty allowance) being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued...
Pagina 61 - ... man was an animal compounded of two dresses, the natural and celestial suit, which were the body and the soul : that the soul was the outward, and the body the inward clothing ; that the latter was ex traduce ; but the former of daily creation and circumfusion ; this last they proved by scripture, because in them we live, and move, and have our being ; as likewise by philosophy, because they are all in all, and all in every part.
Pagina 125 - ... would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes as they have since gone through by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable prospect of entailing the like or greater miseries upon their...
Pagina 160 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Pagina 119 - But I am not in the least Pain upon that Matter; because it is very well known, that they are every Day dying, and rotting, by Cold and Famine, and Filth, and Vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the...
Pagina 139 - I confess I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground. But the remembrance of what I had felt...