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 31
... great kindness , he said he would consent ; but would do it for no man alive but me , & c . And he will speak to the queen to - day or to - morrow ; so , perhaps , something will come of it . I can't tell . Night 31 Journal to Stella.
... great kindness , he said he would consent ; but would do it for no man alive but me , & c . And he will speak to the queen to - day or to - morrow ; so , perhaps , something will come of it . I can't tell . Night 31 Journal to Stella.
Pagina 37
... perhaps nearer ; but diis aliter visum . It may be with one's country as with a lady : if she be cruel and ill - natured , and will not receive us , we ought to consider that we are better without her . But in this case we may add , she ...
... perhaps nearer ; but diis aliter visum . It may be with one's country as with a lady : if she be cruel and ill - natured , and will not receive us , we ought to consider that we are better without her . But in this case we may add , she ...
Pagina 39
... the highest exorbitan- cies with much more safety than a man of great talents can make the least step out of the way . Perhaps it is for the same reason that men are more afraid of attacking a vicious than 39 Personal Letters.
... the highest exorbitan- cies with much more safety than a man of great talents can make the least step out of the way . Perhaps it is for the same reason that men are more afraid of attacking a vicious than 39 Personal Letters.
Pagina 44
... perhaps deaf , but neither is she a court lady : Fortune is both blind and deaf , and a court lady , but then she is a most damnable party - woman , and will never make me easy , as you promise . It must be Riches , which answers all ...
... perhaps deaf , but neither is she a court lady : Fortune is both blind and deaf , and a court lady , but then she is a most damnable party - woman , and will never make me easy , as you promise . It must be Riches , which answers all ...
Pagina 51
... perhaps he is still a - rambling ; for we hear of him at Newmarket , and that Boerhaave has restored his health . How my services are lessened of late with the num- ber of my friends on your side ! yet my lord Bathurst , and lord ...
... perhaps he is still a - rambling ; for we hear of him at Newmarket , and that Boerhaave has restored his health . How my services are lessened of late with the num- ber of my friends on your side ! yet my lord Bathurst , and lord ...
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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...