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... Place ; my Nights are bad , but many poor • Creatures are worfe . As for you , my good Friend , I think fince our first Acquaintance , ' there has not been any of thofe little Suf- picions or Jealoufies which often affect the fincereft ...
... Place ; my Nights are bad , but many poor • Creatures are worfe . As for you , my good Friend , I think fince our first Acquaintance , ' there has not been any of thofe little Suf- picions or Jealoufies which often affect the fincereft ...
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... Place of very confiderable Profit , and is poffeffed of an ample Fortune befides , which he enjoys with a fair Reputation . The Doctor fhared the like Fortune with his Friends Pope and Swift , in having several Brats illegitimately ...
... Place of very confiderable Profit , and is poffeffed of an ample Fortune befides , which he enjoys with a fair Reputation . The Doctor fhared the like Fortune with his Friends Pope and Swift , in having several Brats illegitimately ...
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... Place . No Ad- venture of any Confequence ever occurred on which the Doctor did not write a plea- fant Effay in a great folio Paper - book which ufed to lie in his Parlour ; of these however he was fo negligent , that while he was writ ...
... Place . No Ad- venture of any Confequence ever occurred on which the Doctor did not write a plea- fant Effay in a great folio Paper - book which ufed to lie in his Parlour ; of these however he was fo negligent , that while he was writ ...
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... Place en- joy , give us just reafon to expect from you a fuit- able improvement in them . I have here fent you fome fhort reflections upon the Ufefulness of Ma- thematical Learning , which may ferve as an argu- ment to incite you to a ...
... Place en- joy , give us just reafon to expect from you a fuit- able improvement in them . I have here fent you fome fhort reflections upon the Ufefulness of Ma- thematical Learning , which may ferve as an argu- ment to incite you to a ...
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... place of the Earth , fhould be able by the infpection of the Heavens to find how much he were South or North , Eaft or West of his own Ifland , and to conduct his Ship back thither ? For my part , tho ' I know this may be , and is daily ...
... place of the Earth , fhould be able by the infpection of the Heavens to find how much he were South or North , Eaft or West of his own Ifland , and to conduct his Ship back thither ? For my part , tho ' I know this may be , and is daily ...
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Seite ix - Was at last condemned to it for what he could not do. Oh, indignant Reader! Think not his Life useless to Mankind!
Seite 104 - And he gave it for his opinion, " That whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Seite 88 - This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth or liberal education. When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope, and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office.
Seite 89 - ... and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office. Very often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to...
Seite 89 - Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, is, in my opinion, if I am not partial, the second after the treasurer; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par. These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great numbers are on record.
Seite 92 - Blefuscu; and when they were quelled the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire. It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy; but the books of the Bigendians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments.
Seite 89 - ... not received a fall, and some of them two or three. I was assured that a year or two before my arrival, Flimnap would have infallibly broke his neck, if one of the King's cushions, that accidentally lay on the ground, had not weakened the force of his fall.
Seite 89 - But the danger is much greater when the ministers themselves are commanded to show their dexterity; for, by contending to excel themselves and their fellows, they strain so far that there is hardly one of them who hath not received a fall, and some of them two or three.
Seite 90 - The Emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates, advancing one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it backwards and forwards several times, according as the stick is advanced or depressed.
Seite 5 - By giving us a clear and extensive knowledge of the system of the world, which, as it creates in us the most profound reverence of the Almighty and wise Creator, so it frees us from the mean and narrow thoughts which ignorance and superstition are apt to beget.