 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 514 pages
...whatever numbers; which notwithstanding all that Hobbes, Filmer, and others, have said to its advantage, I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is in a happier state of life than a slave at the oar. It is reckoned ill manners, as well as unreasonable,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 502 pages
...whatever numbers ; which notwithstanding all that Hobbes, Filmer, and others, have said to its advantage, I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is in a happier state of life than a slave at the oar. It is reckoned ill manners, as well as unreasonable,... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 pages
...action greatly increased the merit "/his former services." So the following sentence is defective: " Arbitrary power I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is a happier state of life than a slave at the oar." It should be altered to " as much as the state of life of a... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1893 - 394 pages
...than in any other pursuit; since, by exciting distrust, it counteracts' the very purpose of it. (51) Arbitrary power I look upon as a greater evil than...savage is a happier life than a slave at the oar. (52) A large number of seats have long been occupied by the scholars that have no backs. (53) As when... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1892 - 500 pages
...Church of England Man, ' notwithstanding all that Hobbes, Filmer, and others have said to its advantage, I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is in a happier state of life than a slave at the oar.' ' She understood,' he writes of Esther Johnson,... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1906 - 616 pages
...obedience it exacts from the many. Swift, no great champion of liberty, looked upon arbitrary power as " a greater evil than anarchy itself; as much as a savage is a happier state of life than a slave at the oar." Arbiter. And it leads to war under the plausible pretext of... | |
 | James E. Gill - 1995 - 468 pages
...Numbers; which, notwithstanding all that Habbes. Filmer, and others have said to its Advantage, I do look upon as a greater Evil than Anarchy itself; as much as a Savage is in a happier State of Life, than a Slave at the Oar. (2: 1 5) The speaker of the Tale, the Pretender... | |
 | W[illiam] D[ouglas]. Cox - 1897 - 212 pages
...else to give it advice." " He is inspired with a true sense of (the importance of) that function." " Arbitrary power I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is a happier state of life than a galley slave." " Its shape is very like a cat." " He like me better than you."... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1904 - 790 pages
...light of the sun. (2) I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. (3) Arbitrary power I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is a happier state of life than a slave at the oar. ^4) There is never wanting a set of evil instruments who either... | |
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Arbitrary power I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is a happier state of life than a slave at the oar... 
