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 8C. 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