The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 3J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
Other editions - View all
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volume 3 Jonathan Swift No preview available - 1808 |
Common terms and phrases
able acts of parliament affairs affirm alliance allies allow answer army avarice barrier treaty believe better Britain called church clergy common consequences corruption court crown danger duke duke of Anjou duke of Marlborough Dutch earl emperor employed endeavour enemy England Examiner faction farther favour Flanders forced France French friends garrisons gentlemen give Guelder Harley Holland honour hope house of Bourbon house of Hanover interest king Charles king of Spain kingdom land late king late ministry laws least liberty lord majesty majesty's ment mighty ministers monarchy nation never NUMBER NUMBER observed occasion opinion paper parliament party peace perpetually persons politicks popery possession present ministry pretender prince Provinces publick queen reason religion revolution ruin side Spanish Netherlands States-general succession suppose things thought thousand tion tories towns trade treaty of Munster troops United Provinces whigs whole writer
Popular passages
Page 432 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 176 - ... service, which had drawn upon him the hatred of all the abettors of popery and faction.
Page 80 - Faith to be agreed upon as aforesaid; and such who profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, God co-equal with the Father and the Son, one God blessed for ever, and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the revealed Will and Word of God...
Page 21 - I have spoken of above, are like a couple of makebates, who inflame small quarrels by a thousand stories, and by keeping friends at a distance, hinder them from coming to a good understanding ; as they certainly would; if they were suffered to meet and debate between themselves...
Page 71 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Page 37 - I have therefore since thought of another expedient, frequently practised with great safety and success by satirical writers ; which is, that of looking into history for some character bearing a resemblance to the person we would describe ; and with the absolute power of altering, adding or suppressing what circumstances we please, I conceive we must have very bad luck or very little skill, to fail.
Page 393 - Every new fund to these is like a new mortgage to a usurer, whose compassion for a young heir is exactly the same with that of a stock-jobber to the landed gentry. At the court end of the town, the like places of resort are frequented either by men out of place, and...
Page 6 - Let any man observe the equipages in this town ; he shall find the greater number of those who make a figure, to be a species of men quite different from any that were ever known before the Revolution, consisting either of generals and colonels, or of such whose whole fortunes lie in funds and stocks : so that power, which according to the old maxim, was used to follow land, is now gone over to money...
Page 301 - I could point out some, with great titles, who affected to appear very vigorous for dissolving the union, although their whole revenues before that period, would have ill maintained a Welsh justice of peace ; and have since gathered more money, than ever any Scotchman, who had not travelled, could form an idea of.
Page 15 - Christ, because he hath often fairly given public notice to the world that he believes in neither. Some people may think, that such an accomplishment as this can be of no great use to the owner, or his party, after it has been often practised, and is become notorious ; but they are widely mistaken. Few lies carry the inventor's mark, and the most prostitute enemy to truth may spread a thousand, without being known for the author : besides, as the vilest writer...