 | 1856 - 372 Seiten
...need be under no apprehensions of wanting statesmen, generals, and soldiers. — Goldsmith' DXCIIL Do not we see how easily we pardon our own actions...why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own dulness. — Swift. DXCIV. There are few men who are not ambitious of distinguishing themselves in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1857 - 432 Seiten
...bidding a woman look upon her apron-strings to find an excuse 3 Was it not from the apron of fig-leaves worn by Eve, when she covered herself, and was the...why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own dulness ? There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity ; nor... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 Seiten
...bidding a woman look upon her apron-strings to find an excuse ? Was it not from the apron of figleaves worn by Eve, when she covered herself and was the...why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own dulness ? There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity ; nor... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1861 - 810 Seiten
...bidding a woman look upon her apron-strings to find an excuse ? Was it not from the apron of figleaves worn by Eve, when she covered herself and was the...never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to seo them not ashamed. Do not we see how easily we pardon our own actions and passions, and the very... | |
 | 1881 - 578 Seiten
...despair ; for poverty, imprisonment, ill fortune, grief, sickness, and old age, do generally fail. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder...and passions, and the very infirmities of our bodies ; and why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own dulness ? Observation is an old man's memory.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 Seiten
...bidding a woman look upon her apron-strings to find an excuse ? Was it not from the apron of fig-leaves worn by Eve, when she covered herself, and was the...why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own dulness ? There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage, as vanity ; nor... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 Seiten
...bidding a woman look upon her apron-strings to find an excuse ? Was it not from the apron of fig-leaves worn by Eve, when she covered herself, and was the...made a bad excuse for eating the forbidden fruit. Do not we see how easily we pardon our own actions and passions, and the very infirmities of our bodies... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 Seiten
...bidding a woman look upon her apron-strings to find an excuse ? Was it not from the apron of fig-leaves worn by Eve, when she covered herself, and was the...made a bad excuse for eating the forbidden fruit. Do not we see how easily we pardon our own actions and passions, and the very infirmities of our bodies... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 Seiten
...despair ; for poverty, imprisonment, ill fortune, grief, sickness, and old age, do generally fail. of having some visible and tangible object of adoration. Perhaps ; and why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own dulness ? Observation is an old man's memory.... | |
 | 1887 - 418 Seiten
...scheme, but has dared officially to formulate and announce it. " I never wonder," said Dean Swilt, " to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed." Nothing but the long, demoralizing usage of being governed by the worst men in its ranks, and the habit... | |
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Do not we see how easily we pardon our own actions and passions, and the very infirmities of our bodies : why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own dulness... 
