 ... would indeed be a •wild project ; it would be to dig up foundations ; to destroy at one blow all the wit and half the learning of the kingdom ; to break the entire frame and constitution of things ; to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences, with...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - 136 페이지1902전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 페이지
...have an influence upon men's belief and actions; to offer at the restoring of that would indeed be a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations;...would be full as absurd as the proposal of Horace, where he advises the Romans all in a body to leave their city, and seek a new seat in some remote part... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1923 - 294 페이지
...have an influence upon men's beliefs and actions. To offer at the restoring of that would be, indeed, a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations,...the professors of them; in short, to turn our courts of exchange and shops into deserts; and would be full as absurd as the proposal of Horace where he... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1923 - 314 페이지
...extinguish arts and sciences, with the professors of them; in short, to turn our courts of exchange and 44 shops into deserts; and would be full as absurd as the proposal of Horace where he advises the Romans all in a body to leave their city, and to seek a new seat in some remote... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 페이지
...have an influence upon men's belief and actions: To offer at the restoring of that would indeed be a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations;...would be full as absurd as the proposal of Horace, 1 where he advises the Romans all in a body to leave their city, and seek a new seat in some remote... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 396 페이지
...have an influence upon men's belief and actions: to offer at the restoring of that would indeed be a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations;...would be full as absurd as the proposal of Horace, where he advises the Romans all in a body to leave their city, and seek a new seat in some remote part... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1925 - 348 페이지
...authors of those ages) to have an influence upon men's beliefs and actions." This, he goes on to show, would be "to dig up foundations; to destroy at one...all the wit and half the learning of the kingdom." It would deprive the freethinkers of the best object of their wit, for "who would ever have suspected... | |
 | Norman Furlong - 1946 - 196 페이지
...enough to stand up in defence of real Christianity. 'To offer at the restoring of that, would indeed be a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations,...the wit and half the learning of the kingdom' — to ruin trade, to empty the lawcourts and the stock exchange, and so on. As we read on, we realise that... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 페이지
...have an Influence upon Mens Belief and Actions: To offer at the Restoring of that, would indeed be a wild Project; it would be to dig up Foundations;...break the entire Frame and Constitution of Things. "M But what distinguishes Swift's from Gibbon's use of primitive Christianity is what distinguishes... | |
 | Thomas M. Woodman - 1989 - 180 페이지
...shrouded in layers of irony though it be, that the restoration of "real Christianity" would indeed be a wild Project; it would be to dig up Foundations; to destroy at one Blow aJJ the Wit, and half the Learning of the Kingdom; to break the entire Frame and Constitution of Things;... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 페이지
...Swift on the obsolescence of old-time religion: to offer at the restoring of that, would indeed be a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations:...turn our courts, exchanges, and shops, into deserts. 159 At century's end, William Blake indignantly concurred: 'Spirits are Lawful, but not Ghosts; especially... | |
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