Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swiftwas an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth30 November 1667
CountryIreland
justice judging office
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.
government slavery definitions
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
reading thinking age
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
syllables
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
firsts reason persons
You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.
children winter two
A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.
philosophy school lumber
Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
style literature definitions
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
good-morning good-day greatness
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
country race vegetables
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
drinking bottles literature
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
drinking bottles literature
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
friendship family wisdom
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
pride proud poverty
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.