Selections from the Journal to Stella, A Tale of a Tub, Personal Letters and Gulliver's Travels ; Together with The Drapier's Letters, I ; Sleeping in Church ; A Modest ProposalDoubleday, Page, 1901 - 183 pagina's |
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Pagina 38
... observed that there is a lower kind of dis- cretion and regularity , which seldom fails of raising men to the highest stations , in the court , the church , and the law ? It must be so : for Providence , which designed the world should ...
... observed that there is a lower kind of dis- cretion and regularity , which seldom fails of raising men to the highest stations , in the court , the church , and the law ? It must be so : for Providence , which designed the world should ...
Pagina 39
... observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife ? did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way ? whereas , if he had used a razor or a pen- knife , he had odds against him of spoiling a whole sheet . I ...
... observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife ? did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way ? whereas , if he had used a razor or a pen- knife , he had odds against him of spoiling a whole sheet . I ...
Pagina 42
... observed that gentlemen often . dance better than those that live by the art . You may thank fortune that my paper is no longer , & c . TO MR . POPE . [ Note Swift's declaration of his real motive in writing " Gulliver's Travels ...
... observed that gentlemen often . dance better than those that live by the art . You may thank fortune that my paper is no longer , & c . TO MR . POPE . [ Note Swift's declaration of his real motive in writing " Gulliver's Travels ...
Pagina 56
... they carefully observed their father's will , and kept their coats in very good order : that they travelled through several countries , * The New Testament . encountered a reasonable quantity of giants , and slew certain 56 Swift.
... they carefully observed their father's will , and kept their coats in very good order : that they travelled through several countries , * The New Testament . encountered a reasonable quantity of giants , and slew certain 56 Swift.
Pagina 60
... observe how sparkish a periwig adorns the head of a beech , and what a fine doublet of white satin is worn by the birch . To conclude from all , what is man himself but a micro - coat , or rather a complete suit of clothes with all its ...
... observe how sparkish a periwig adorns the head of a beech , and what a fine doublet of white satin is worn by the birch . To conclude from all , what is man himself but a micro - coat , or rather a complete suit of clothes with all its ...
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Pagina 111 - ... the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants: who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.
Pagina 43 - ... and all my love is toward individuals ; for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love counsellor such-a-one, and judge such-a-one : it is so with physicians, (I will not speak of my own trade,) soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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 133 - I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within' my depth, and by this time the storm was much abated. The declivity was so small that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore, which I conjectured was about eight o'clock in the evening.
Pagina 113 - ... children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, How this number shall be reared and provided for? which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture; we neither build houses (I mean in the country), nor cultivate land...
Pagina 138 - ... wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite. I then made another sign that I wanted drink. They found by my eating, that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up with great dexterity one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards...
Pagina 55 - ... seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Pagina 144 - There is likewise another diversion, which is only shown before the Emperor and Empress, and first minister, upon particular occasions. The Emperor lays on the table three fine silken threads of six inches long.
Pagina 175 - Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong; and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our neighbors want the things which we have, or have the things which we want; and we both fight, till they take ours, or give us theirs.
Pagina 129 - I resided three years, and applied my self 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...