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Popular passages
Page 49 - I have often had it in my head to put it into yours, that you ought to have some great work in scheme...
Page 122 - THOUGH you were never to write to me, yet what you desired in your last, that I would write often to you, would be a very easy task ; for every day I talk with you, and of you, in my heart ; and I need only set down what that is thinking of.
Page 72 - Good God ! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage ? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. God keep those we have left ! few are worth praying for, and one's self the least of all.
Page 43 - I have still a worse evil ; for the giddiness I was subject to, instead of coming seldom and violent, now constantly attends me more or less, though in a more peaceable manner, yet such as will not qualify me to live among the young and healthy...
Page 127 - I have lost all spirit, and every scrap of health; I sometimes recover a little of my hearing, but my head is ever out of order. While I have any ability to hold a commerce with you, I will never be silent, and this chancing to be a day that I can hold a pen, I will drag it as long as I am able.
Page 8 - As to this country,* there have been three terrible years dearth of corn, and every place strewed with beggars ; but dearths are common in better climates, and our evils here lie much deeper. Imagine a nation the two thirds of whose revenues are spent out of it, and who are not permitted to trade with the other third...
Page 114 - I have lefs experience than you, the truth of what you told me fome time ago, that increafe of years makes men more talkative, but lefs writative : to that degree, that I now write no letters but of plain...
Page 79 - You say truly, that death is only terrible to us as it separates us from those we love, but I really think those have the worst of it who are left by us, if we are true friends. I have felt more (I fancy) in the loss of Mr.
Page 130 - ... to write to me, when you had the honour to be an exile. I can hardly hope to live till you...
Page 90 - The man who drew your Character and printed it here, was not much in the wrong in many things he...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen Volumes. ... Volume 10 of The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen Volumes, Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Publisher | John Donadlson [sic], London, 1774 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2006 |
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