 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...worth a solution; and it were well if all metaphysical cobweb problems were no otherwise answered. gets astride on his reason; when imagination is at...common understanding, as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors ; the first proselyte he makes, is himself; and when that is once compassed, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...worth a solution ; and it were well if qll ;nctaphysical eobwob problems were no otherwise answered. gets astride on his reason ; when imagination is at...common understanding, as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors ; the first proselyte he makes, is himself; and when that is once compassed, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...and the greatest pain.' GARTH. MS- Pall. gets astride on his reason ; when imagination is &t tufts with the senses ; and common understanding; as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors ; the first proselyte he makes, is himself; and when that is once compassed, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 500 pages
...that instructs him in his private infirmities, as well as in the stubborn ignorance of the people. But when a man's fancy gets astride on his reason ; when...common understanding, as well as common sense, is kicked -out of doors ; the first proselyte he makes, is himself; and when that is once compassed, the... | |
 | Madness - 1810 - 510 pages
...the disordered person., and not unfrequentlj deludes others." " When a man's fancy," continues Swift, gets astride on his reason, when imagination is at...common understanding, as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors ; the first proselyte he makes is himself; and when that is once compassed, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1811 - 390 pages
...• * * * * * * * his private infirmities, as well as in the stubborn ignorance of the people. But when a man's fancy gets astride on his reason; when...common understanding, as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors; the first proselyte he makes, is himself; and when that is once compassed, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - English literature - 1812 - 250 pages
...that instructs him in his private infirmities, as well as iu the stubborn ignorance of the people. But when a man's >• / fancy gets astride on his reason...common understanding, as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors ; the first proselyte he makes, is himself; and when that is once compassed, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 380 pages
...that instructs him in his private infirmities, as well as in the stubborn ignorance of the people. But when a man's fancy gets astride on his reason; when imagination is at cufls with the senses ; and common understanding, as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors ;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 pages
...that instructs him in his private infirmities, as well as in the stubborn ignorance of the people. But when a man's fancy gets astride on his reason ; when...common understanding, as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors ; the first proselyte he makes is himself; and when that is once compassed, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 446 pages
...that instructs him in his private infirmities, as well as in the stubborn ignorance of the people. But when a man's fancy gets astride on his reason ; when...common understanding, as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors ; the first proselyte he makes is himself; and when that is eace compassed, the... | |
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But when a man's fancy gets astride on his reason, when imagination is at cuffs with the senses, and common understanding as well as common sense is kickt out of doors... 
