The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised, in Twelve Volumes. Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, Volume 8

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C. Bathurst, T. Osborne, W. Bowyer, J. Hinton, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Davis and C. Reymers, and J. Dodsley., 1765
 

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Page 11 - It is often born an infant in the regular way, and requires time to mature it; and often it fees the light in its full growth, but Dwindles away by degrees. Sometimes it is of noble birth ; and fometimes the fpawn of a. flock-jobber. Here it fcreams aloud at
Page 4 - while there is any thing left. So that if the war continue fome years longer, a landed man will be little better than a farmer of a rack-rent to the army and to the publick funds. It may perhaps be worth enquiring, from what beginnings and by what fteps we have
Page 13 - without any meaning at all; and befides, that will take off the horror you might be apt to conceive at the oaths, wherewith he perpetually tags both ends of every propofition ; although at the fame time, I think, he cannot, with any juftice, be taxed with perjury,
Page 14 - limping after it; fo that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late ; the jeft is over, and the tale has had its effeft : like a man, •who has thought of a good repartee, when the difcourfe is changed, or the company
Page 23 - or at leaft that majority, which voted it: neither do I fee it is any crime, farther than ill manners, to differ in opinion from a majority of either or both houfes; and that ill manners, I muft confefs, I have been often guilty of for fome years paft, although I hope
Page 15 - between our enemies and friends. We have feen a great part of the nation's money got into the hands of thofe, who, by their birth, education, and merit, could pretend no higher than to wear our liveries ; while others, who, by their credit, quality, and fortune, were only able to give reputation and fuccels to the revolution, were not only laid
Page 25 - ever. Lawyers may explain this, 'or call them words of form as they pleafe ; and reafoners may argue, that fuch an obligation is againft the very nature of government; but a plain reader, who takes the words in their natural meaning, may be excufed in thinking a right fo confirmed is
Page 103 - to prevent them from fencing againft real dangers at home. By thefe and the like arts, in conjunction with a great depravity of manners, and a weak or corrupt adminiftration, the madnefs of the people hath rifen to fuch a heighth, as to break in pieces the whole frame of the beft inftituted governments. But
Page 23 - is the young pretender in France, to whom their whole party is in a high meafure indebted for all their greatnefs; and •whenever it lies in their power, they may perhaps return their acknowledgments, as, out of their zeal for frequent revolutions, they were ready to do to his fuppofed father ; which is a piece of
Page 229 - I can hardly inftance above two or three, which, by the letter of the law, could amount to high-treafon. From thefe defects in our laws, and the •want of fome difcretionary power, fafely lodged, to exert upon emergencies ; as well as from the great acquirements of able men to elude the penalties of

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