The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 19A. Constable, 1814 |
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Pagina 23
... opinion , not with equal merit , though it has humour . Monstrous preparations are making for the royal wedding . † Pearl , gold and silver , embroidered on gold and silver tissues . I am too poor and too dull to make one among the fine ...
... opinion , not with equal merit , though it has humour . Monstrous preparations are making for the royal wedding . † Pearl , gold and silver , embroidered on gold and silver tissues . I am too poor and too dull to make one among the fine ...
Pagina 30
... opinion ought to be of some weight , be- cause I was an innocent instrument , drawn in by your lordship , against Faulkner's will , to be an oc- casion of his sufferings . And if you shall please to recompense him in the manner that all ...
... opinion ought to be of some weight , be- cause I was an innocent instrument , drawn in by your lordship , against Faulkner's will , to be an oc- casion of his sufferings . And if you shall please to recompense him in the manner that all ...
Pagina 38
... is no offence against God , or the laws of the country I live in . Mr Faulkner hath dealt so fairly with me , that I have a great opinion of his honesty , although I never dealt with him as $ 8 EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE .
... is no offence against God , or the laws of the country I live in . Mr Faulkner hath dealt so fairly with me , that I have a great opinion of his honesty , although I never dealt with him as $ 8 EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE .
Pagina 42
... opinion , that the act for repealing the Test would have passed , if Sir Robert Walpole had not seen the necessity of his speaking , which he did in the most artful manner he had ever done in his life . Several courtiers voted against ...
... opinion , that the act for repealing the Test would have passed , if Sir Robert Walpole had not seen the necessity of his speaking , which he did in the most artful manner he had ever done in his life . Several courtiers voted against ...
Pagina 55
... opinion of the * A female relation of Mr Dunkin had bequeathed an estate in land , for ever , to the college and fellows of Trinity College , Dublin , upon condition that they should take care of his educa . tion , and afterward assist ...
... opinion of the * A female relation of Mr Dunkin had bequeathed an estate in land , for ever , to the college and fellows of Trinity College , Dublin , upon condition that they should take care of his educa . tion , and afterward assist ...
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Pagina 309 - tis man we love. Then too, when fate shall thy fair frame destroy (That cause of all my guilt, and all my joy...
Pagina 239 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity ; and will not be persuaded, that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the dean. They say, he is not afraid of the strictest examination, though he is of so long a journey ; and...
Pagina 456 - Clonmel, sole executors of this my last will and testament : And I do hereby revoke and make void all former and other wills and testaments by me...
Pagina 119 - I neither visit nor am acquainted with any lord, temporal or spiritual, in the whole kingdom ; ' nor am able to do the least good office to the most deserving man, except what I can dispose of in my own cathedral upon a vacancy. What has sunk my spirits more than even years and sickness, is reflecting on the most execrable corruptions that run through every branch of public management.
Pagina 413 - ... and butter and a glass of ale, and at ten he goes to bed. Wine is a stranger, except a little I sent him, of which, one evening in two, we have a pint between us. His wife has been this month twenty miles off, at her father's, and will not return these ten days. I never saw her, and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes. I read all day, or walk, and do not speak as many words as I have now writ, in three days...
Pagina 424 - IF you write as you do, I shall come the seldomer, on purpose to be pleased with your letters, which I never look into without wondering how a brat who cannot read can possibly write so well.
Pagina 411 - ... since happened. But I am now fitter to look after willows, and to cut hedges, than to meddle with affairs of state. I must order one of the workmen to drive those cows out of my island, and make up the ditch again ; a work much more proper for a country vicar, than driving out factions, and fencing against them.
Pagina 17 - Use of different Capacities : 4. Of the Use of Learning, of the Science of the World, and of Wit. It will conclude with a Satire against the misapplication of all these, exemplified by pictures, characters, and examples.
Pagina 345 - Pratt, to whom I am almost a domestic upon your account. I am convinced, that whatever Government come over, you will find all marks of kindness from any Parliament here, with respect to your employment ; the Tories contending with the Whigs which should speak best of you.
Pagina 410 - I staid but a fortnight in Dublin, very sick, and returned not one visit of a hundred that were made me ; but all to the Dean, and none to the Doctor. I am riding here for life ; and I think I am something better. I hate the thoughts of Dublin, and prefer a field-bed, and an earthen-floor, before the great house there, which they say is mine.