Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
Jonathan SwiftI hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called “A Voyage round the world.”
Jonathan Swift... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
Jonathan SwiftStichwörter: wife-companion-youth
Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.
Jonathan SwiftStichwörter: intolerance religious-violence transubstantiation religious-bigotry catholic-nonsense difference-of-opinions
Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!
Jonathan SwiftStichwörter: murder killing genocide religious-violence blood divine-right conversion convert divine-command-theory horrors-of-religion
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