 | Jonathan Swift - 1766 - 408 pages
...fcribbling, to make my letter at leaft as long as one of your fermons ; and, if you do not mend, my next mail be as long as one of Dr. Manton's *, who taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be an high-churchman, that I might never hear him read, nor read him more. You muft know, that I am as... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1766 - 410 pages
...to make my letter at leaft as long as one of your fermons ; and; if you do not mend, my next fhall be as long as one of Dr. Manton's *, who taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be an high-churchman, that I might never hear him read, nor read him more. You muft know, that I am as... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 518 pages
...all my anger against you to my aid, I resolve, since I am this morning in the humour of scribbling, to make my letter at least as long as one of your...taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a high churchman, that I might never hear him read, nor read him more. You must know, that I am as busy about... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 536 pages
...all my anger against you to my aid, I resolve, since I am this morning in the humour of scribbling, to make my letter at least as long as one of your...taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a high churchman, that I might never hear him read, nor read him more. You must know, that I am as busy about... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 318 pages
...all my anger against you to my aid, I resolve, since I am this morning in the humour of scribbling, to make my letter at least as long as one of your...taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a high churchman, that I might never hear him read, nor read him more. You must know, that I am as busy about... | |
 | Walter Wilson - Dissenters, Religious - 1810 - 598 pages
...extraordinary passage, relating to Dr. Manton. " My next shall be as long as one of Dr. Manton 's (sermons), who taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a high-churchman, that I might never hear him read, nor read him more."* If nich were the grounds upon... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 366 pages
...all my anger against you to my aid, I resolve, since I am this morning in the humour of scribbling, to make my letter at least as long as one of your...one of Dr. Manton's,* who taught my youth to yawn, aud prepared me to be a high churchman, that I might never hear him read, nor read him more. * Thomas... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 334 pages
...resolve, since I am this morning in the humour of scribbling, to make my letter at least as long as one ef your sermons ; and, if you do not mend, my next shall...taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a high churchman, that I might never hear him read, nor read him more. * Thomas Manton, DD who had been ejected... | |
 | Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 506 pages
...Bolingbroke. In a letttr to Dr. Swift, he writes, ''My next shall be as long as one of Dr. Manton's sermons, who taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a high churchman, that 1 might never hear him read, nor read him more.'' Granger's History, vl iii. p. 304,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 728 pages
...Bolingbroke, in a letter to Swift, says, " My next shall be a? long as one of Dr. Manton's Sermons, who taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High Churchman, that I might never hear him read, nor read him more.'f He was one of the greatest Divines... | |
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I am this morning in the humour of scribbling, to make my letter at least as long as one of your sermons ; and, if you do not mend, my next shall be as long as one of Dr. Manton's*, who taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a high churchman,... 
