 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 pages
...in suspense ; it is the life of a spider, " Vive quid em, pende tamen, improba, dixit." OVID. Metam. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping...is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes. ... . Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1807 - 372 pages
...at him, which I picked up t'other day out of the dirt, that is, out of Swift. ' The stoical method of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.' I was wonderfully diverted with the comparison, and immediately resolved, though I am almost barefoot... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - Conduct of life - 1807 - 214 pages
...at him, which 1 picked up t'other day out of the dirt, that is, out of Swift. ' The stoical method of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.' I was wonderfully diverted with the comparison, and immediately resolved, though I am almost barefoot... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1807 - 236 pages
...at him, which I picked up t'other day out of the dirt, that is, out of Swift. ' The stoical method of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting oifour feet when we want shoes.' I was wonderfully diverted with the comparison, and immediately resolved,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 pages
...in suspense; it is the life of a spider. " Vive quidem, pende tamen, improba, dixit." .OviD. Metani. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping...is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes. Physicians ought not to give their judgement of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 386 pages
...in suspense ; it is the life of a spider. " Vive quidero, pende tamen, improba dixit." OVID. Metam. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping...desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shces. Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...in suspense ; it is the life of a spider. ' Vive quidem, pende tamen, improba, dixit.' Oviil. Metam. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off oar feet when we want shoes. The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 pages
...in suspense ; it is the life of a spider. " Vine quidem, pende tamen, improba, dixit." OYID. Metam. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping...is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes. Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 564 pages
...in suspense ; it is the life of a spider. " Vive quidem, pende tamen, improba, dixit." OVID. Metam. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping...is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes. Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 342 pages
...Five quidem, pende tam«n, improba, dixit. Ovid Met. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants l>y lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are nut... | |
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. 
