| Jonathan Swift - 1705 - 342 pages
...Difeafes are by thoufands, betides new and daily Additions : So, all the Virtues that have been ever in Mankind, are to be counted upon a few Fingers, but his Follies and Vices are innumerable, and Time adds hourly to the Heap. Now, the utmoft a poor Poet can do, is to get by heart a Lift of... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1755 - 514 pages
...difeafes are by thoufands, befides new and daily additions ; fo, all the virtues that have been ever in mankind, are to be counted upon a few fingers; but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds, hourly to the heap. Now the utmoft a poor poet can do, is to get by heart a lift of... | |
| Robert Lowth - English language - 1763 - 226 pages
...WhatreafonAro* the Church of Rome to talk of modefty in this cafe ?" Tillotfon, Vol. I. Serm. 49. " All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but te or Plural Number ; yet not without regard to the import of the word, as conveying unity or plurality... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 500 pages
...difeafes are by thoufands, befides new and daily additions ; fo, all the virtues that have been ever in mankind, are to be counted upon a few fingers ; but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds t, hourly hourly to the heap. Now the utmoft a poo'r poet can do, is to get by heart... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 376 pages
...difeafes are by thoufands, befides new and daily additions : fo all the virtues that have been ever in mankind, are to be counted upon a few fingers; but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap. Now, the utmoft a poor poet can do, is to get by heart a lift of... | |
| Robert Lowth - English language - 1791 - 192 pages
...give the leaft fignv or intimation of being a traytor in his heart." Addifon, Freeholder, N° 52^ " All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but bit folliesand vices are innumerable." Swift, Preface to Tale of a Tub. Is not mankind in this 'place... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Haussner - 1798 - 1148 pages
...him find his finders. 3d) reitt tön fcbon arbeiten lebten (ibm fd)on $u fd)affen Qu tjun] geben).— All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers , but their follies and vices are innumerable. 8Ше ífcugcnbetT Ьес SXenfcben tonnen an einem фааг... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1798 - 278 pages
...cifes are by thoufUmls, bcfules new and daily additions : fo all the virtues, that have been ever in mankind, are to be counted upon a few fingers ; but his follies and vice* are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap. Now, the utmoft a poor poet can do, is to... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...governments, is to confine the malecontent, if his crimes are not capital, to some castle or dungeon for life. There is indeed no constitution, so tame and careless of their own defence, where any person dares to give the least sign or intimation of being a traitor in his heart. Our English... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...Stephen's party were entirely broken up by the captivity of their leader." " An army of twenty-four thousand were assembled." " What reason have the church...mankind in this place a noun of multitude, and such us requires the pronoun referring to it to be in the plural number, their ? RULE V. Pronouns must always... | |
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