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The Works of Jonathan Swift; Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems, Not Hitherto Published Volume 9 - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...affairs and councils, governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces: I have known men of great valour, cowards to their wives. I have known men of the greatest cunning, perpetually cheated. I knew three great ministers, who could exactly compute and settle the accompts of a kingdom, but were wholly ignorant of their own economy. The preaching of divines helps to preserve wellinclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or never reclaims the vicious. Princes usually make wiser choices than the servants whom they trust for the disposal of places: I have known a prince, more than once, choose an able minister: but I never observed that minister to use his credit in the disposal of an employment to a person whom he thought the fittest for it. One of the greatest in this age owned, and excused the matter, from the violence of parties, and the unreasonableness of friends. Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw. Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age. Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. Harley. Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. If books and laws continue to increase as they have done for fifty years past, I am in concern for future ages, how any man will be learned, or any man a lawyer. Kings are commonly said to have long hands; I wish they had as long ears. Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth, are said to...
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