Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinA. Millar, 1752 - 339 páginas |
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Página 47 - ... chieftains of their trade, to receive his advice, in fettling the rates of their manufactures, and the wages of their journeymen. He received their...
Página 44 - His attendance upon the public fervice of the church was regular and uninterrupted : and indeed regularity was peculiar to him in all his actions, even in the F 3 greateft greatefr trifles. His hours of walking, and reading, never varied: His motions were guided by his watch...
Página 137 - His meagre corpse, though full of vigour, Would halt behind him, were it bigger. So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like an apparition.
Página 127 - Agriculture is cultivated; arts' and fciences are encouraged : and in the fpace *f eighteen years, which is almoft the full time that I have known it, no kingdom can be more improved.
Página 193 - In their dictionary, wit is only another name for wickednefs : and the purer, or more excellent the wit, the greater, and more impious the abomination.
Página 55 - Thy manual signet refuses to put To the airs I produce from the pen or the gut. Be thou then propitious, great Phoebus ! and grant Relief, or reward, to my merit, or want. Though the Dean and Delany...
Página 42 - The dissimilitude of their tempers might be owing to the different turns in their fortune. Swift early formed large views of ambition, and was...
Página 67 - ... of life Providence may allot you. There are two other letters in this volume extremely worthy of your notice. The one is, To a young gentleman lately entered into holy orders. The other is, To a young lady on her marriage.
Página 123 - I'll lay you a crown I will begin " prayers before you this afternoon." " I accept the wager," replied Dr. RAYMOND : and immediately they both ran as faft as they could towards the church. RAYMOND, who was much the nimbler man of the two, arrived firft at the door : and when he entered the church walked decently towards the reading defk.