The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
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... live the meft puiffant Emperor of Lilliput ! This great Prince received me at my landing with all poffible encomiums , and created me a Nardac upon the fpot , which is the higheft title of honour among them . His Majefty defired I would ...
... live the meft puiffant Emperor of Lilliput ! This great Prince received me at my landing with all poffible encomiums , and created me a Nardac upon the fpot , which is the higheft title of honour among them . His Majefty defired I would ...
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... live . THEIR notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours . For , fince the con- junction of male and female is founded upon the great law of nature in order to propagate and continue the fpecies ...
... live . THEIR notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours . For , fince the con- junction of male and female is founded upon the great law of nature in order to propagate and continue the fpecies ...
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... live at court . I bowed down to the board of the table , and humbly answered that I was my master's flave ; but if I were at my own difpofal , I fhould be proud to devote my life to her Majefty's fervice . She then asked my master ...
... live at court . I bowed down to the board of the table , and humbly answered that I was my master's flave ; but if I were at my own difpofal , I fhould be proud to devote my life to her Majefty's fervice . She then asked my master ...
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... live in any of their rivers . Her Majefty faid , if I would contrive a boat , her own joiner should make it , and she would pro- vide a place for me to fail in . The fellow was an ingeni- ous workman , and by my instructions in ten days ...
... live in any of their rivers . Her Majefty faid , if I would contrive a boat , her own joiner should make it , and she would pro- vide a place for me to fail in . The fellow was an ingeni- ous workman , and by my instructions in ten days ...
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... live to do his Majesty fome fignal fervice . The King heard me with attention , and began to conceive a much better opinion of me than he had ever before . He defired I would give him as exact an account of the government of England ...
... live to do his Majesty fome fignal fervice . The King heard me with attention , and began to conceive a much better opinion of me than he had ever before . He defired I would give him as exact an account of the government of England ...
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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.