The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
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... set of filver dishes and plates , and other ne- ceffaries , which in proportion to thofe of the Queen , were not much bigger than what I have seen in a London toy- fhop , for the furniture of a baby - houfe : thefe my little nurfe kept ...
... set of filver dishes and plates , and other ne- ceffaries , which in proportion to thofe of the Queen , were not much bigger than what I have seen in a London toy- fhop , for the furniture of a baby - houfe : thefe my little nurfe kept ...
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... set a - drift in a small canoe , with pad- dles and a fail , and four days provifions , which last the Japanese Captain was fo kind to double out of his own ftores , and would permit no man to search me . I got down into the canoe ...
... set a - drift in a small canoe , with pad- dles and a fail , and four days provifions , which last the Japanese Captain was fo kind to double out of his own ftores , and would permit no man to search me . I got down into the canoe ...
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... set in contrast to the immortality of the Struldbrugs , is no longer the king of terrors : he lofes his fting ; he appears to us as a friend ; and we chearfully obey his fummons , becaufe it brings certain relief to the greatest ...
... set in contrast to the immortality of the Struldbrugs , is no longer the king of terrors : he lofes his fting ; he appears to us as a friend ; and we chearfully obey his fummons , becaufe it brings certain relief to the greatest ...
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... Set him on fhore in an unknown land . He travels up into the country . The Yahoos , a strange fort of animal , defcribed . The author meets Houyhnhnms . I two Continued at home with my wife and children about five months in a very happy ...
... Set him on fhore in an unknown land . He travels up into the country . The Yahoos , a strange fort of animal , defcribed . The author meets Houyhnhnms . I two Continued at home with my wife and children about five months in a very happy ...
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... set of phrases ; and if they take a pen into their hands , all the odd words they have picked up in a coffee - houfe , or a gaming or- dinary , are produced as flowers of ftyle ; and the ortho- graphy refined to the utmoft . To this we ...
... set of phrases ; and if they take a pen into their hands , all the odd words they have picked up in a coffee - houfe , or a gaming or- dinary , are produced as flowers of ftyle ; and the ortho- graphy refined to the utmoft . To this we ...
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170 ページ - The professor then desired me to observe, for he was going to set his engine at work. The pupils at his command took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded...
126 ページ - 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.
13 ページ - Fortune 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 struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth, and by this time the storm was much abated.
210 ページ - In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end...
380 ページ - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
172 ページ - However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things, which hath only this inconvenience attending it, that if a man's business be very great and of various kinds, he must be obliged in proportion to carry a greater bundle of things upon his back, unless he can afford one or two strong servants to attend him.
170 ページ - The first professor I saw was in a very large room, with forty pupils about him. After salutation, observing me to look earnestly upon a frame which took up the greatest part of both the length and breadth of the room, he said, perhaps I might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge by practical and mechanical operations.
166 ページ - Every room hath in it one or more projectors, and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms.
291 ページ - ... king, they set up a rotten plank or a stone for a memorial, they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more by force for a sample, return home, and get their pardon. Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.
172 ページ - The other project was a scheme for entirely abolishing all/ words whatsoever; and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health as well as brevity. For it is plain that every word we speak is in some degree a diminution of our lungs by corrosion, and consequently contributes to the shortening of our lives.