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" I have changed my mind : you have a thousand people who can pretend they love you with as much appearance of sincerity as I ; so that, according to common justice, I can have but a thousandth part in return of what I give. And this difference is wholly... "
The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions - Page 32
by Walter Scott - 1847
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The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D. D.

Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1911 - 460 pages
...love you, with as much appearance of sincerity as I, so that according to common justice I , can have but a thousandth part in return of what I give. And...And the misfortune is still the greater, because I always loved you just so much the worse for your station. For in your public capacity you have often...
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Dean Swift

Sophie Shilleto Smith - Authors, Irish - 1910 - 586 pages
...love you, with as much appearance of sincerity as I ; so that, according to common justice, I can have but a thousandth part in return of what I give, and...this difference is wholly owing to your station. And this misfortune is still the greater, because I always loved you just so much the worse for your station...
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Selected English Letters (XV-XIX Centuries)

Mabel Duckitt - English letters - 1913 - 488 pages
...love you, with as much appearance of sincerity as I, so that, according to common justice, I can have but a thousandth part in return of what I give. And...And the misfortune is still the greater, because I always loved you just so much the worse for your station: for, in your public capacity, you have often...
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Jonathan Swift: The Leslie Stephen Lecture Delivered Before the University ...

Charles Whibley - Authors, Irish - 1917 - 64 pages
...loved you just so much the worse for your station," he wrote to Harley in the hour of Harley 's trial, "for in your public capacity you have often angered...to the heart, but, as a private man, never once." His affection for Harley survived all the chances and changes of life, even the bitter feud, which...
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Literary Studies

Charles Whibley - English literature - 1919 - 594 pages
...just so much the worse for your station,' he wrote to ~^r ' Harley in the hour of Harley's trial, ' for in your * public capacity you have often angered...to the heart, but, as a private man, never once.' His affection for Harley survived all the chances and changes of life, even the bitter feud, which...
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Select Letters of Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1926 - 396 pages
...love you, with as much appearance of sincerity as I, so that according to common justice I can have but a thousandth part in return of what I give. And...And the misfortune is still the greater, because I always loved you just so much the worse for your station. For in your public capacity you have often...
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Passionate Intelligence: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill

E. M. Knottenbelt - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 432 pages
...understanding the feeling of the author ... they must condemn themselves to contempt'. For in your publick Capacity you have often angered me to the Heart, but, as a private man, never once. So that if I only looktd towards my self I could wish you a private Man to morrow. (Corr., II, 44-45)...
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