The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Historical and political tracts-EnglishG. Bell, 1901 |
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... nature and a remarkable clarity of vision into the forces which con- dition the interaction and play of character on character . These attributes enabled him , not merely to see how and why events occurred , but how best to move those ...
... nature and a remarkable clarity of vision into the forces which con- dition the interaction and play of character on character . These attributes enabled him , not merely to see how and why events occurred , but how best to move those ...
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... natural to him . To a man of his temper this complacency had little in it of humility . It meant an arrogant insistence upon himself as a fact . He had waited long for the oppor- funity , and now that it had come , he made the fullest ...
... natural to him . To a man of his temper this complacency had little in it of humility . It meant an arrogant insistence upon himself as a fact . He had waited long for the oppor- funity , and now that it had come , he made the fullest ...
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... nature . He is without the sense of shame or glory , as some men are without the sense of smelling ; and therefore a good name to him is no more than a precious ointment would be to those . Whoever were to describe the nature of a ...
... nature . He is without the sense of shame or glory , as some men are without the sense of smelling ; and therefore a good name to him is no more than a precious ointment would be to those . Whoever were to describe the nature of a ...
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... natural understanding , a great fluency in speaking , and no ill taste of wit , he is generally the worst companion in the world ; his thoughts being wholly taken up between vice and politics , so that bawdy , prophaneness , and ...
... natural understanding , a great fluency in speaking , and no ill taste of wit , he is generally the worst companion in the world ; his thoughts being wholly taken up between vice and politics , so that bawdy , prophaneness , and ...
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... natural Conceived by Analogy " ( 1733 ) , and many sermons ( 1749 ) . [ T. S. ] 4 Dean of Down in 1717. He was Provost of Trinity College in 1710 , and died in 1721. Cotton , in his " Fasti " ( vol . v . ) , identifies Dean Pratt with ...
... natural Conceived by Analogy " ( 1733 ) , and many sermons ( 1749 ) . [ T. S. ] 4 Dean of Down in 1717. He was Provost of Trinity College in 1710 , and died in 1721. Cotton , in his " Fasti " ( vol . v . ) , identifies Dean Pratt with ...
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Page 182 - Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?