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... party , class , or sect ; while from abroad we shall secure whatever of real value may offer . There has been no attempt to follow the fashion in our type - dress , but , satisfied rather with plain roman , we furnish a page which can ...
... party , class , or sect ; while from abroad we shall secure whatever of real value may offer . There has been no attempt to follow the fashion in our type - dress , but , satisfied rather with plain roman , we furnish a page which can ...
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... parties are satirized in the ridiculous disputes between the Big Endians and Little Endians - men who either broke their eggs at the larger or the smaller end . The history of the origin of this terrible war , in which Liliput and ...
... parties are satirized in the ridiculous disputes between the Big Endians and Little Endians - men who either broke their eggs at the larger or the smaller end . The history of the origin of this terrible war , in which Liliput and ...
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... party rendered incapable by law of holding any employment . " This controversy over such trifles is intended to satirize the religious struggles between Catholics and Protestants , and the dispute as to the end of the egg which should ...
... party rendered incapable by law of holding any employment . " This controversy over such trifles is intended to satirize the religious struggles between Catholics and Protestants , and the dispute as to the end of the egg which should ...
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... parties in a state are violent , he offered a most wonderful contrivance to reconcile them . The method is this . You take a hundred leaders of each party ; you dispose of them into couples of such whose heads are nearest of a size ...
... parties in a state are violent , he offered a most wonderful contrivance to reconcile them . The method is this . You take a hundred leaders of each party ; you dispose of them into couples of such whose heads are nearest of a size ...
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... party . From the death of Sir William Temple to his first introduction to Lord Oxford , his time had mostly been ... parties . Swift at this time appears thoroughly to have understood his employers , for we find him , the next year after ...
... party . From the death of Sir William Temple to his first introduction to Lord Oxford , his time had mostly been ... parties . Swift at this time appears thoroughly to have understood his employers , for we find him , the next year after ...
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Popular passages
Page 182 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Page 388 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness...
Page 11 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 378 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 532 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Page 453 - I will tell you: it is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other; he is never out of his diocese...
Page 419 - In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said, that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the state, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.
Page 6 - It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger end: but his present Majesty's grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers.
Page 9 - And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail ; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
Page 298 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...