The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes, and a Life of the AuthorBickers & son, 1883 This work contains the works of Jonathan Swift, including previously unpublished letters, tracts, and poems. |
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... least pleasure , is that in which the author most required assistance . It is intended to ridicule the pursuits of philosophy , as the two first voyages were levelled against the government of Great Britain , both in its general ...
... least pleasure , is that in which the author most required assistance . It is intended to ridicule the pursuits of philosophy , as the two first voyages were levelled against the government of Great Britain , both in its general ...
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... least pleasure was that which describes the Flying Island , and that which gave most disgust must be the history of the Houyhnhnms . While Swift was enjoying the reputation of his new work , the news of the king's death arrived ; and he ...
... least pleasure was that which describes the Flying Island , and that which gave most disgust must be the history of the Houyhnhnms . While Swift was enjoying the reputation of his new work , the news of the king's death arrived ; and he ...
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... least for some time , a better entertainment to our young noblemen than the com- mon scribbles of politics and party . This volume would have been at least twice as large , if I had not made bold to strike out innumer- able passages ...
... least for some time , a better entertainment to our young noblemen than the com- mon scribbles of politics and party . This volume would have been at least twice as large , if I had not made bold to strike out innumer- able passages ...
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... least in this little island , as I had reason to expect , behold , after above six months ' warning , I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my intentions . I desired you would let me know , by a letter ...
... least in this little island , as I had reason to expect , behold , after above six months ' warning , I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my intentions . I desired you would let me know , by a letter ...
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... least I was in so weak a condition that I did not observe them . I was extremely tired , and with that , and the heat of the weather , and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship , I found myself much inclined to ...
... least I was in so weak a condition that I did not observe them . I was extremely tired , and with that , and the heat of the weather , and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship , I found myself much inclined to ...
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Trang 3 - Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.
Trang 261 - When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.
Trang 10 - 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 242 - I had the Honour to have much Conversation with Brutus ; and was told that his Ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the Younger, Sir Thomas More and himself, were perpetually together: A Sextumvirate to which all the Ages of the World cannot add a Seventh.
Trang 244 - that new systems of nature were but new fashions, which would vary in every age; and even those, who pretend to demonstrate them from mathematical principles, would flourish but a short period of time, and be out of vogue when that was determined.
Trang 163 - 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, or ambition, could produce.
Trang 167 - And he gave it for his opinion, " that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind,, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Trang 52 - Silk; the Red is given to the next, and the Green to the third, which they all wear girt twice round about the Middle; and you see few great Persons about this Court, who are not adorned with one of these Girdles.
Trang 65 - That all true believers break their eggs at the convenient end: and which is the convenient end, seems, in my humble opinion, to be left to every man's conscience, or at least in the power of the chief magistrate to determine.
Trang 74 - They bury their dead with their heads directly downwards, because they hold an opinion that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again, in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.