Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four PartsDerby & Jackson, 1856 - 419 trang |
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... give force and direction to its barbed head . The notes appended to this edition point out , as far as possible after so many years , the immediate objects satirized . Had it , however , only a personal aim , the book would have ...
... give force and direction to its barbed head . The notes appended to this edition point out , as far as possible after so many years , the immediate objects satirized . Had it , however , only a personal aim , the book would have ...
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... gives some account of himself and family - His inducements to travel - He is shipwrecked , and swims for his life - Gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput - Is made a prisoner , and carried up the country CHAPTER II . 85 The ...
... gives some account of himself and family - His inducements to travel - He is shipwrecked , and swims for his life - Gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput - Is made a prisoner , and carried up the country CHAPTER II . 85 The ...
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... gives his master a short account of his Voyage 856 • CHAPTER IV . The Houynhnm's notion of truth and falsehood - The Author's discourse disap- proved by his master - The Author gives a more particular account of himself and the ...
... gives his master a short account of his Voyage 856 • CHAPTER IV . The Houynhnm's notion of truth and falsehood - The Author's discourse disap- proved by his master - The Author gives a more particular account of himself and the ...
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... The difficulty of conquering them - The Author takes his last leave of the reader ; proposes his manner of living for the future ; gives good advice , and concludes 425 LIFE OF SWIFT . BY THE REVEREND JOHN MITFORD . xii CONTENTS .
... The difficulty of conquering them - The Author takes his last leave of the reader ; proposes his manner of living for the future ; gives good advice , and concludes 425 LIFE OF SWIFT . BY THE REVEREND JOHN MITFORD . xii CONTENTS .
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... gives me a prebend . " In 1692 , he went to Oxford to take his Master's degree , to which he was admitted on the 5th of July , 1692. From Oxford he paid a visit to his mother , and then returned to Moor Park . He now was anxious to ...
... gives me a prebend . " In 1692 , he went to Oxford to take his Master's degree , to which he was admitted on the 5th of July , 1692. From Oxford he paid a visit to his mother , and then returned to Moor Park . He now was anxious to ...
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Trang 68 - He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music : Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing.
Trang 300 - An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on.
Trang 431 - ... when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience; neither shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an animal and such a vice could tally together.
Trang 299 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
Trang 129 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Trang 238 - He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century ; protesting it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition could produce.
Trang 300 - However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things, which hath only this inconvenience attending it, that if a man's business be very great, and of various kinds, he must be obliged in proportion to carry a greater bundle of things upon his back, unless he can afford one or two strong servants to attend him.
Trang 278 - That the earth very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; and that the next, which they have calculated for one and thirty years hence, will probably destroy us.
Trang 239 - As for yourself," continued the king, " who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Trang 97 - ... were fastened by hooks to many bandages, which the workmen had girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs. Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed to draw up these cords by many pulleys fastened on the poles ; and thus, in less than three hours, I was raised and slung into the engine, and there tied fast.