 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 strani
...deserved the GIBBET for what he did, Was at last condemned to it for what he could not do. O indigO indignant reader ! Think not his life useless to mankind...PROVIDENCE connived at his execrable designs, To give to after ages a conspicuous PROOF and £XAMPLE Of how small estimation is EXORBITANT WEALTH in the sight... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 strani
...daily deserved the GIBBET for what he did, Was at last condemned to it for what he could not do. O indignant reader! Think not his life useless to mankind...PROVIDENCE connived at his execrable designs, To give to after ages a conspicuous PROOF and EXAMPLE Of how small estimation is EXORBITANT WEALTH in the sight... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 strani
...daily deserved the GI BBET for what he did, Was at last condemned to it for what he could not do. O indignant reader ! Think not his life useless to mankind...PROVIDENCE connived at his execrable designs, To give to after ages a conspicuous PROOF and ExAMPLE Of how small estimation is ExORBITANT WEALTH in the sight... | |
 | Edward Barry - 1806 - 208 strani
...Think not his life useless to mankind! PROVIDENCE, at his execrable designs, To give to after ages j A conspicuous PROOF and EXAMPLE Of how small estimation...the sight of GOD, By his bestowing it on the most UNWORTHY i Of ALL MORTALS." ' :' ' . / • "• This man was infamous for all manner of vices. While... | |
 | Select collection - 1806 - 262 strani
...he could not do. Oh, indignant reader ! Think not his lite useless to mankind ! Providence permitted his execrable designs, To give to after-ages A conspicuous...estimation is exorbitant wealth In the sight of God, 157 St. Mary Key, fpswick, ON JO. WAKNEK, AGED 9«, 1641. I Warnef once was to myself, Both living,... | |
 | William Hogarth - 1808 - 346 strani
...<*' his insatiable avarice exempted him from the first; " his matchless impudence from the second. " Oh, indignant reader! ** think not his life useless...the sight of God, by his bestowing it on " the most unworthy of all mortals /" The female fiend, who panders to the vices of the opulent and libidinous,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 476 strani
...deserved the GIBBET for what he did, Was at last condemned to it for what he could not do. : • ;O indignant reader ! Think not his life useless to mankind ! PROVIDENCE connived at his execrable designs, * This Epitaph on a man infamous for all manner of vices was written by Dr. Arbuthnot. ' To To give... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 strani
...he could not do. Oh Indignant Reader ! Think not his Life useless to Mankind ; PROVIDENCE conniv'd at his execrable Designs, To give to After-ages A...the Sight of GOD, By his bestowing it on the most UNWORTHY of ALL MORTALS." A figure which the Greeks call paraleifisis, borders upon irony, and is sometimes... | |
 | 1812 - 474 strani
...HYPOCRISY. His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first; his matchless IMPUDENCE from the second. Oh indignant reader ! think not his life useless to...Providence connived at his execrable designs, to give to after ages a conspicuous proof and example, of how small estimation is EXORBITANT WEALTH in the sight... | |
 | William Chamberlaine (surgeon.) - 1814 - 120 strani
...at his Designs, V?*H^!lp''" •' J^ /.^ To pivn to after \crns \ < >v W' S,^ y To give to after Ages A conspicuous Proof and Example, Of how small Estimation...the Sight of God, By his bestowing it on the most unworthy Of all Mortals !" Arbuthnot's EpitapH on Col. C/mrirr;, BY W. CHAMBERLAINS. THE THIRD EDITION,... | |
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He acquired, or more properly created, A MINISTERIAL ESTATE. He was the only Person of his Time, Who could CHEAT without the Mask of HONESTY, Retain his Primeval MEANNESS When possessed of TEN THOUSAND a Year, And having daily deserved the GIBBET for... 
