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... Friends , Countrymen , and Fellow - Subjects , WHAT I intend now to say to you , is , next to̟ your duty to God , and the care of your salvation , of the greatest concern to yourselves and your chil- dren ; your bread and clothing , and ...
... Friends , Countrymen , and Fellow - Subjects , WHAT I intend now to say to you , is , next to̟ your duty to God , and the care of your salvation , of the greatest concern to yourselves and your chil- dren ; your bread and clothing , and ...
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Jonathan Swift. you know , or inquire , or care , who are your friends , or who are your enemies . About four years ago a little book was written , to advise all people to wear the manufactures of this our own dear country * . It had no ...
Jonathan Swift. you know , or inquire , or care , who are your friends , or who are your enemies . About four years ago a little book was written , to advise all people to wear the manufactures of this our own dear country * . It had no ...
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... friends ; and it seems , knew very well where to give money to those that would speak to others , that could speak to the king , and would tell a fair story . And his majesty , and perhaps the great lord or lords who advise him , might ...
... friends ; and it seems , knew very well where to give money to those that would speak to others , that could speak to the king , and would tell a fair story . And his majesty , and perhaps the great lord or lords who advise him , might ...
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... friends in England , prevail so far as to get an order , that the commiffioners and collectors of the king's money shall receive them , and that the army is to be paid with them , then he thinks his work shall be done . And this is the ...
... friends in England , prevail so far as to get an order , that the commiffioners and collectors of the king's money shall receive them , and that the army is to be paid with them , then he thinks his work shall be done . And this is the ...
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... friends , to save you the trouble , set before you in short , what the law obliges you to do , and what it does not oblige you to . First , you are obliged to take all money in pay- ments which is coined by the king , and is of the ...
... friends , to save you the trouble , set before you in short , what the law obliges you to do , and what it does not oblige you to . First , you are obliged to take all money in pay- ments which is coined by the king , and is of the ...
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able act of parliament advantage allowed answer beggars bishops church clergy coinage confess consequence copper court crown declare drapier Dublin employments endeavour enemies England English farther farthing favour foreign beggars former friends gentlemen give gold and silver grand jury half honour hope house of commons house of lords hundred pounds Ireland Irish jacobite king king's kingdom of Ireland labour land landlords least letter liberty likewise live lord lordship low church majesty majesty's manufactures ment minister nation never obliged observed occasion offer officers opinion parish party passed patent pence persons poor prerogative present pretender prince printer privy council proposal publick reason receive rents revenue ruin sent shillings shopkeepers suppose tenants thing thought thousand pounds tion told tory town trade true twenty whereof whig whole kingdom wholly William Wood Wood's coin Wood's halfpence
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Page 216 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 289 - There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.
Page 294 - For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of papists, with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principal breeders of the nation as well as our most dangerous enemies...
Page 294 - But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold, and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.
Page 297 - I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, till he hath at least some glimpse of hope that there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them in practice. But as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly despairing of success...
Page 361 - Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand ; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive : for the heart of this people is •waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed ; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 288 - I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is, in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance ; and, therefore, whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these children sound, useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the public, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
Page 289 - ... till they arrive at six years old, except where they are of towardly parts, although I confess they learn the rudiments much earlier, during which time they can, however, be properly looked upon only as probationers; as I have been informed by a principal gentleman in the County of Cavan who protested to me that he never knew above one or two instances under the age of six, even in a part of the kingdom so renowned for the quickest proficiency in that art.
Page 296 - ... the number of people will be thereby much lessened in the kingdom. This I freely own, and was indeed one principal design in offering it to the world. I desire the reader will observe that I calculate my remedy for this one individual kingdom of Ireland and for no other that ever was, is, or I think ever can be upon earth.
Page 298 - I desire those politicians, who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have sin.ce gone through...