The Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels. Directions to servantsA. Constable, 1814 |
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... attend a con- trast so violent as is offered to the usual standard of proportion in the inhabitants of Lilliput and Brobdingnag . The great accuracy with which proportions are preserved has often been noticed as one of these interesting ...
... attend a con- trast so violent as is offered to the usual standard of proportion in the inhabitants of Lilliput and Brobdingnag . The great accuracy with which proportions are preserved has often been noticed as one of these interesting ...
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... attended him ; whereof one was a page , that held up his train , and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger ; the other two stood one on each side to support him . He acted every part of an orator ; and I could observe many ...
... attended him ; whereof one was a page , that held up his train , and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger ; the other two stood one on each side to support him . He acted every part of an orator ; and I could observe many ...
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... attended by several of the Nobility , comes to see the Author in his Confinement . The Emperor's Person and Habit described . Learned Men appointed to teach the Author their Language . He gains Favour by his mild Disposition . His ...
... attended by several of the Nobility , comes to see the Author in his Confinement . The Emperor's Person and Habit described . Learned Men appointed to teach the Author their Language . He gains Favour by his mild Disposition . His ...
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... attended by many ladies , sat at some dis- tance in their chairs ; but upon the accident that happened to the emperor's horse , they alighted , and came near his person , which I am now going to describe . He is taller , by almost the ...
... attended by many ladies , sat at some dis- tance in their chairs ; but upon the accident that happened to the emperor's horse , they alighted , and came near his person , which I am now going to describe . He is taller , by almost the ...
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... attended him , ) to surround me , at a distance , with their bows and arrows just ready to discharge ; but I did not observe it , for mine eyes were whol- ly fixed upon his majesty . * He then desired 46 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS : PART I.
... attended him , ) to surround me , at a distance , with their bows and arrows just ready to discharge ; but I did not observe it , for mine eyes were whol- ly fixed upon his majesty . * He then desired 46 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS : PART I.
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39 ページ - He is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court ; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders. His features are strong and masculine...
177 ページ - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass 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.
24 ページ - I resided three years, and applied my self close to my studies: but the charge of maintaining me (although I had a very scanty allowance) being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in...
140 ページ - Tory. Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I: and yet...
51 ページ - This diversion is only practised by those persons, who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education. When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace, (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope ; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.
8 ページ - 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.
231 ページ - He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
275 ページ - ... for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife.
2 ページ - Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.
213 ページ - They are so perpetually alarmed with the apprehensions of these, and the like impending dangers, that they can neither sleep quietly in their beds, nor have any relish for the common pleasures or amusements of life.