The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, Volume 5J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Halaman 218 - England ; or that the queen's majesty, with and by the authority of parliament, is not able to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity, to limit and bind the crown of this realm, and the descent, limitation, inheritance, and government thereof...
Halaman 304 - They lamented that they were not able to serve me since the death of the king; and were very liberal in promising me the greatest preferments I could hope for, if ever it came in their power. I soon grew domestic with lord Halifax, and was as often with lord Somers as the formality of his nature (the only unconversable fault he had) made it agreeable to me.
Halaman 304 - I found myself much inclined to be what they call a Whig in politics ; and that besides, I thought it impossible, upon any other principle, to defend or submit to the Revolution ; but as to religion, I confessed myself to be a high-churchman, and that I could not conceive how any one, who wore the habit of a clergyman, could be otherwise...
Halaman 71 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Halaman 181 - He is the cunningest, subtle dissembler in the world, with an air of sincerity ; a dangerous enemy, because always hid ; an instance of which was Secretary Johnstoun, to whom he pretended friendship, till the very morning he gave him a blow, though he had been worming him out of the king's favour for many months before...
Halaman 31 - ... has as much authority with him from St. Sommonocodom as from St. Matthew. Thus he treats revelation. Then as to philosophy, he tells you, p. 136, ' Cicero produces this as an instance of a probable opinion, that they who study philosophy do not believe there are any Gods;' and then, from consideration of various notions, he affirms Tully concludes, ' that there can be nothing after death.
Halaman 99 - THIS author is in most particulars the worst qualified for an historian that ever I met with. His style is rough, full of improprieties, in expressions often Scotch, and often such as are used by the meanest...
Halaman 247 - God has given the bulk of mankind a capacity to understand reason, when it is fairly offered ; and by reason they would easily be governed, if it were left to their choice. Those princes in all ages, who were most distinguished for their mysterious skill in government, found by the event, that they had ill consulted their own quiet, or the ease and happiness of their...
Halaman 55 - A Preface to the Bishop of Sarum's Introduction to the Third Volume of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England.
Halaman 12 - The Bonzes of China have books written by the disciples of Fo-he, whom they call the ' God and Saviour of the world, who was born to teach the way of salvation, and to give satisfaction for all men's sins.' The Talapoins of Siam have a book of scripture written by Sommonocodom, who, the Siamese say, was ' born of a virgin, and was the God expected by the universe.