 | Jonathan Swift - 1726 - 386 pages
...Conviction; as it muft needs do where it is not mingled, obfcured, or difcoloured by Paffion. and 'Interefh I remember <• it was with extreme Difficulty that I could bring my Mafter to underftand the meaning of the Word Opinion, or how a Point could be difputable; becaufe Reafon... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1742 - 386 pages
...Conviction ; as it muft needs do, where it is not mingled, obfcured, or difcoloured by Pafibn and Into. eft. I remember it was with extreme Difficulty, that I could bring my Mailer to underftand the Mean•ing of the Word Opinion, or how a Point could be difputable ; becaufe... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1743 - 430 pages
...Conviction ; as it muft needs do where it is not mingled, obfcured, or difcoloured by Paffion and Intereft. I remember it was with extreme Difficulty that I could bring my Mailer to underftand the Meaning of the Word Opinion, or how a Point could be difputable ; becaufe... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1761 - 412 pages
...as it imift needs do, where it is mot mingled, obfcured, or diftoloured, by paflion and- intereft. I remember it was with extreme difficulty, that I could bring my mafter to underftand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be difputable ; becaufe... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 468 pages
...; as it muft needs do, where it is not mingled, obfcured, or difcoloured, by paftion and intereft. I remember it was with extreme difficulty, that I could bring my mafter to underftand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be difputable ; becaufe... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 382 pages
...; as it muft needs do, where it is not mingled, obfeured, or difeoloured, by paffion and intereft. I remember it was with extreme difficulty, that I could bring my mafter to vmderftand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be difputable ; becaufe... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...grand maxim is, to cultivate reason, and to be wholly governed by it. Neither is reason among them a point problematical, as with us, where men can argue with plausibility on bet; sides of the question; but strikes you with immetiute conviction ; as it must needs do, where... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 446 pages
...grand maxim is, to cultivate reason, and to be wholly governed by it. Neither is reason among them a point problematical, as with us, where men can argue with plausibility ou both sides of the question ; but strikes you with immediate conviction ; as it must needs do, where... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...prou.tEstical, as with us, where men can argu" w.ta plausibility on both sides of the question ; M strikes you with immediate conviction ; as it must needs do, where it is not mingled, obscured- a discoloured, by passion and interest. I rememwr it was with extreme difficulty that I could Inn;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 pages
...grand maxim is, to cultivate reason, and to be wholly governed by it. Neither is reason among them a point problematical, as with us, where men can argue...was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my roaster to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable ; because... | |
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As these noble Houyhnhnms are endowed by nature with a general disposition to all virtues, and have no conceptions or ideas of what is evil in a rational creature ; so their grand maxim is, to cultivate reason, and to be wholly governed by it. 
