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Notes, and a Life of the AuthorBickers & son, 1883 This work contains the works of Jonathan Swift, including previously unpublished letters, tracts, and poems.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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... whereof was the lord of Godolphin , and the second the lord of Oxford ; so that you have made me say the thing that was not . Likewise , in the account of the academy of projectors , and several passages of my discourse to my master ...
... whereof was the lord of Godolphin , and the second the lord of Oxford ; so that you have made me say the thing that was not . Likewise , in the account of the academy of projectors , and several passages of my discourse to my master ...
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... whereof many , I suppose , fell on my body , ( though I felt them not , ) and some on my face , which I immediately covered with my left hand . When this shower of arrows was over , I fell a - groaning with grief and pain ; and then ...
... whereof many , I suppose , fell on my body , ( though I felt them not , ) and some on my face , which I immediately covered with my left hand . When this shower of arrows was over , I fell a - groaning with grief and pain ; and then ...
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... whereof I understood not one syllable . But I should have mentioned , that , before the principal person began his oration , he cried out three times , Langro dehul san ; ( these words and the former were after- wards repeated and ...
... whereof I understood not one syllable . But I should have mentioned , that , before the principal person began his oration , he cried out three times , Langro dehul san ; ( these words and the former were after- wards repeated and ...
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... whereof some are nine feet long , in the woods where the timber grows , and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea . Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set at work to pre- pare the ...
... whereof some are nine feet long , in the woods where the timber grows , and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea . Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set at work to pre- pare the ...
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... whereof one very narrowly missed my left eye . But the colonel ordered six of the ringleaders to be seized , and thought no punishment so proper , as to deliver them bound into my hands ; which some of his soldiers accordingly did ...
... whereof one very narrowly missed my left eye . But the colonel ordered six of the ringleaders to be seized , and thought no punishment so proper , as to deliver them bound into my hands ; which some of his soldiers accordingly did ...
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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.