The Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels. Directions to servantsA. Constable, 1814 |
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... opinion , to suffer my travels to be published . Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consider , when you insisted on the motive of public good , that the Yakoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by ...
... opinion , to suffer my travels to be published . Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consider , when you insisted on the motive of public good , that the Yakoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by ...
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... opinion , it was extreme- ly prudent , as well as generous ; for , supposing these people had endeavoured to kill me with their spears and arrows while I was asleep , I should certainly have awaked with the first sense of smart , which ...
... opinion , it was extreme- ly prudent , as well as generous ; for , supposing these people had endeavoured to kill me with their spears and arrows while I was asleep , I should certainly have awaked with the first sense of smart , which ...
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... opinion of my generosity and justice , as to trust their persons in my hands : that whatever they took from me , should be returned when I left the country , or paid for at the rate which I would set upon them . " I took up the two ...
... opinion of my generosity and justice , as to trust their persons in my hands : that whatever they took from me , should be returned when I left the country , or paid for at the rate which I would set upon them . " I took up the two ...
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... opinion , if I am not partial , the second after the treasurer ; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par . These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents , whereof great numbers are on record . I myself have seen ...
... opinion , if I am not partial , the second after the treasurer ; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par . These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents , whereof great numbers are on record . I myself have seen ...
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... opinion , to be left to every man's con- * As the political parties of Whig and Tory are pointed out by the high and low heels of the Lilliputians , those of Papist and Pro- testant are designated under the Big - endians and Small ...
... opinion , to be left to every man's con- * As the political parties of Whig and Tory are pointed out by the high and low heels of the Lilliputians , those of Papist and Pro- testant are designated under the Big - endians and Small ...
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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.