 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 páginas
...enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half by necessity under shade and darkness ; or, whether fancy, flying up to the imagination of what is highest...reason ; the proposition however, which has stood me in sq much circumstance, is altogether true ; that at the most uncivilized parts of mankind, have some... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1811 - 390 páginas
...enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half by necessity under shade and darkness; or whether fancy, flying up to the imagination of •what is highest and best, becomes over-short, and spent, and weary, and suddenly falls, like a dead bird of paradise, to the ground;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 448 páginas
...enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half by necessity under shade and darkness; or whether fancy, flying up to the imagination of what is highest...falls, like a dead bird of paradise, to the ground ; -f or whether, after all these metaphysical conjectures, I have not entirely missed the true reason... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 442 páginas
...enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half by necessity under shade and darkness; or whether fancy, flying up to the imagination of what is highest...falls, like a dead bird of paradise, to the ground ; f or whether, after all these metaphysical conjectures, I have not entirely missed the true reason... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 342 páginas
...one half of the globe, leaving the other half, by necessity, under shade and darkness ; or whether fancy, flying up to the imagination of what is highest and best, becomes over-short, and spent, and weary, and suddenly falls, like a dead hird of paradise, to the ground ;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1831 - 184 páginas
...enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half, by necessity, under shade and darkness; or whether fancy, flying up to the imagination of what is highest and best, becomes over-short, and spent, and weary , and suddenly falls , like a dead bird of paradise , to the ground;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1857 - 432 páginas
...one half of the globe, leaving the other half, by necessity, under shade and darkness ; or whether fancy, flying up to the imagination of what is highest and best, becomes over-short, and spent, and weary, and suddenly falls, like a dead bird of paradise, to the ground ;... | |
 | 1863 - 876 páginas
...1, '63. ECCLESIASTES. 243 the globe, leaving the other half by necessity in darkness — or whether fancy, flying up to the imagination of what is highest and best, becomes --over short and spent and weary, and suddenly falls, like a dead bird of Paradise, to the ground."... | |
 | 1892 - 568 páginas
...enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half by necessity under shade and darkness, or whether fancy, flying up to the imagination of what is highest and best, becomes over-short, and spent, and weary, and suddenly falls, like a dead bird of paradise, to the ground ;... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 450 páginas
...enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half by necessity under shade and darkness ; or whether fancy, flying up to the imagination of what is highest and best, becomes over-short and spent and weary, and suddenly falls, like a dead bird of paradise, to the ground ; or... | |
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... Whether a tincture of malice in our natures makes us fond of furnishing every bright idea with its reverse; or whether reason, reflecting upon the sum of things, can, like the sun, serve only to enlighten one half of the globe, leaving the other half... 
