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Page 36 - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Page 38 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Page 45 - Faith to be agreed upon as aforesaid; and such who profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, God co-equal with the Father and the Son, one God blessed for ever, and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the revealed Will and Word of God...
Page 263 - It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffeehouse for the voice of the kingdom.
Page 168 - I know a citizen who adds or alters a letter in his name, with every plum he acquires ; he now wants only the change of a vowel * to be allied to a sovereign prince in Italy -f- ; and that perhaps he may contrive to be done by a mistake of the graver upon his tombstone.
Page 128 - The two houses of parliament, in an address to the queen, declared their belief, that Mr. Harley's fidelity to her majesty, and zeal for her service, had drawn upon him the hatred of all the abettors of popery and faction*.
Page 267 - Spain, what have we been fighting for all this while? The answer is ready : we have been fighting for the ruin of the public interest, and the advancement of a private. We have been fighting to raise the wealth and grandeur of a particular family ; to enrich usurers and stockjobbers, and to cultivate the pernicious designs of a faction, by destroying the landed interest. The nation begins now to think these blessings are not worth fighting for any longer, and therefore desires a peace.
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| Titre | The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift... The British classics Volume 5 de The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan |
| Auteur | Jonathan Swift |
| Rédacteur | John Nichols |
| Éditeur | W. Durell & Company, 1812 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université du Michigan |
| Numérisé | 28 juin 2005 |
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