The Works of Jonathan Swift: Twelve sermons. TractsA. Constable, 1814 |
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... suppose that some- thing dark or mystical was meant , which it pleased God to conceal from me and from all the world . Thus in the text , " There are Three that bear re- cord , " & c . Am I capable of knowing and de- fining , what union ...
... suppose that some- thing dark or mystical was meant , which it pleased God to conceal from me and from all the world . Thus in the text , " There are Three that bear re- cord , " & c . Am I capable of knowing and de- fining , what union ...
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... suppose this principle of honour , which some men so much boast of , did really produce more virtue than it ever pretended to do ; yet , since the very being of that honour depended upon the breath , the opinion , or the fancy of the ...
... suppose this principle of honour , which some men so much boast of , did really produce more virtue than it ever pretended to do ; yet , since the very being of that honour depended upon the breath , the opinion , or the fancy of the ...
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... suppose a man thinks it his duty to obey his parents , because reason tells him so , because he is obliged by gratitude , and because the laws of his country command him to do so ; if he stops here , his parents can have no lasting ...
... suppose a man thinks it his duty to obey his parents , because reason tells him so , because he is obliged by gratitude , and because the laws of his country command him to do so ; if he stops here , his parents can have no lasting ...
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... suppose every body will allow , that one good , honest , diligent servant in a house , may prevent abundance of mischief in the family . These are the reasons for which I urge this matter so strongly , and I hope those who listen to me ...
... suppose every body will allow , that one good , honest , diligent servant in a house , may prevent abundance of mischief in the family . These are the reasons for which I urge this matter so strongly , and I hope those who listen to me ...
Стр. 145
... suppose a fool's cap on the wisest head , and then laugh at his own supposition . I think there are not many things cheaper than supposing and laughing ; and if the uniting these two ta- VOL . VIII . K lents can bring a thing into ...
... suppose a fool's cap on the wisest head , and then laugh at his own supposition . I think there are not many things cheaper than supposing and laughing ; and if the uniting these two ta- VOL . VIII . K lents can bring a thing into ...
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Стр. 116 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Стр. 99 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Стр. 78 - But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you : for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Стр. 156 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Стр. 63 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Стр. 47 - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Стр. 197 - Who would ever have suspected Asgill for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been at hand to provide them with materials ? What other subject, through all art or nature, could have produced Tindal for a profound author, or furnished him with readers? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer. For had an hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion, they would have immediately sunk into...
Стр. 196 - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject, so calculated in all points, whereon to display their abilities? what wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those whose genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...
Стр. 43 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility : for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Стр. 79 - O ° my soul, come not thou into their ° secret ; unto their "assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a 0 man, and in their selfwill they ° digged down a wall.