The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Band 12

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W. Bowyer, C. Bathurst, W. Owen, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Davis, and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder and Company and B. Collins., 1768
 

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Seite 210 - 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.
Seite 75 - Your good behaviour on this article will concern your whole community: deny the fact with all solemnity of imprecations: a hundred of your brethren, if they can be admitted^, will attend about the bar, and be ready upon demand to give you a...
Seite 229 - What have I to do in the world ? I never was in such agonies as when I received your letter, and had it in my pocket. I am able to hold up my sorry head no longer.
Seite 321 - Bolingbroke, and desired he would observe, that the clerks in his office used a sort of ivory knife with a blunt edge to divide a sheet of paper, which never failed to cut it even, only requiring a...
Seite 192 - Therefore sit down and be quiet, and mind your business as you should do, and contract your friendships, and expect no more from man than such an animal is capable of, and you will every day find my description of yahoos more resembling.
Seite 323 - The two maxims, of any great man at court are* always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
Seite 75 - ... or going upon the highway, or, in a drunken quarrel, by killing the first man you meet, may very probably be your lot...
Seite 297 - Answer to a Letter from a Gentleman in the Country to his Friend in Town.
Seite 284 - where two or three are gathered together in thy name, thou wilt be in the midst of them, and bless them.
Seite 350 - By each brother firm stand ; Let's be merry, and put a bright face on : What mortal can boast So noble a toast As a free and an accepted Mason.

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