 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 460 pàgines
...sofae or all of these qualities. I have been frequently assured by great ministers, that politicks were nothing but common sense ; which, as it was the...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 530 pàgines
...to some or all of these qualities. I have been frequently assured by great ministers, that politicks were nothing but common sense ; which, as it was the...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 512 pàgines
...wished I should not believe. God has given the bulk of mankind a capacity to understand reason, when jt is fairly offered ; and by reason they would easily...were most distinguished for their mysterious skill in government, found by the event that they had ill consulted their own quiet, or the ease arid happiness... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 452 pàgines
...death, than have taken measures in concert with him to hare avoided either. DS r SOME FREE THOUGHTS, &c. ^WHATEVER may be thought or practised by profound...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 442 pàgines
...statesman was much greater than that which he entertained for Bolingbroke. SOME FREE THOUGHTS, &c. WHATEVER may be thought or practised by profound politicians,...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 438 pàgines
...statesman was much greater than that which he entertained for Bolingbroke. SOME FREE THOUGHTS, &c. WHATEVE& may be thought or practised by profound politicians,...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 680 pàgines
...ever been remembered on the like occasion SOME FREE THOUGHTS UPON THE PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS. 1714. WHATEVER may be thought or practised by profound politicians,...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 472 pàgines
...attachment for that statesman was much greater than that which he entertained for Bolingbroke. HATEVER may be thought or practised by profound politicians,...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 558 pàgines
...true thing they spoke, so it was the only thing they could have wished I should not believe. God hath given the bulk of mankind a capacity to understand...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... | |
 | Arthur Waugh - 1897 - 364 pàgines
...was the only true thing they spoke, so it was the only thing they could have wished I should not 133 believe. God has given the bulk of mankind a capacity...they would easily be governed, if it were left to then- choice. Those princes in all ages, who were most distinguished for their mysterious skill in... | |
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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... 
