The Life of Jonathan Swift: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 2Macmillan, 1894 |
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The Life of Jonathan Swift: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 2 Sir Henry Craik Volledige weergave - 1894 |
The Life of Jonathan Swift: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 2 Sir Henry Craik Volledige weergave - 1894 |
The Life of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 2 Sir Henry Craik Volledige weergave - 1894 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 75 - For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed, is the very definition of slavery. But in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.
Pagina 149 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh...
Pagina 30 - To like with less seraphic ends ; Or, to compound the business, whether They temper love and books together ; Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold.
Pagina 284 - ... he was stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency ; and at last hardly admitted in a manner little to his credit...
Pagina 253 - I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I caB say is, that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is, and your family. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few; few and miserable they must be.
Pagina 154 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Pagina 81 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Pagina 56 - I do profess without affectation, that your kind opinion of me as a patriot, since you call it so, is what I do not deserve; because what I do is owing to perfect rage and resentment, and the mortifying sight of slavery, folly, and baseness about me, among which I am forced to live.
Pagina 110 - I look upon this to be the greatest event that can ever happen to me; but all my preparations will not suffice to make me bear it like a philosopher, nor altogether like a Christian.
Pagina 181 - ... abundance of friends, entertains them. often and liberally, they pass the evening with him at cards, with plenty of good meat and wine, eight or a dozen together ; he loves them all, and they him.