The Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels. Directions to servantsA. Constable, 1814 |
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... able a sight was one principal motive of my re- tirement hither . Thus much I thought proper to tell you in re- lation to yourself , and to the trust I reposed in you . I do , in the next place , complain of 18 A LETTER FROM GULLIVER.
... able a sight was one principal motive of my re- tirement hither . Thus much I thought proper to tell you in re- lation to yourself , and to the trust I reposed in you . I do , in the next place , complain of 18 A LETTER FROM GULLIVER.
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... tell , but conclude they were all lost . For my own part , I swam as For- tune directed me , and was pushed forward by wind and tide . I often let my legs drop , and could feel no bottom ; but when I was almost gone , and able to ...
... tell , but conclude they were all lost . For my own part , I swam as For- tune directed me , and was pushed forward by wind and tide . I often let my legs drop , and could feel no bottom ; but when I was almost gone , and able to ...
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... tell you , been engaged in a most obsti- nate war for six - and - thirty moons past . It be- gan upon the following occasion : it is allowed on all hands , that the primitive way of breaking eggs , before we eat them , was upon the ...
... tell you , been engaged in a most obsti- nate war for six - and - thirty moons past . It be- gan upon the following occasion : it is allowed on all hands , that the primitive way of breaking eggs , before we eat them , was upon the ...
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... tell us , there have been six rebellions raised on that account ; wherein one emperor lost his life , and another his crown . These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu ; and when they were quelled , the ...
... tell us , there have been six rebellions raised on that account ; wherein one emperor lost his life , and another his crown . These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu ; and when they were quelled , the ...
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... tell how his majesty might resent the manner by which I had performed it : for , by the fundamental laws of the realm , it is capital in any person , of what quality soever , to make water within the precincts of the palace . But I was ...
... tell how his majesty might resent the manner by which I had performed it : for , by the fundamental laws of the realm , it is capital in any person , of what quality soever , to make water within the precincts of the palace . But I was ...
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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.