The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 4A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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... opinion , to fuffer my travels to be pu blifhed . Pray bring to your mind how often I defired you to confider , when you infifted on the motive of pu- blick good , that the Yahoos were a species of animals ut- terly incapable of ...
... opinion , to fuffer my travels to be pu blifhed . Pray bring to your mind how often I defired you to confider , when you infifted on the motive of pu- blick good , that the Yahoos were a species of animals ut- terly incapable of ...
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... opinion , it was extremely prudent , as well as gene rous , for fuppofing thofe people had endeavoured to kill me with their fpears and arrows while I was alleep , I fhould certainly have awaked with the first sense of smart , which ...
... opinion , it was extremely prudent , as well as gene rous , for fuppofing thofe people had endeavoured to kill me with their fpears and arrows while I was alleep , I fhould certainly have awaked with the first sense of smart , which ...
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... opinion of himself and his fubjects . He defired I would not take it ill , if he gave orders to certain proper officers to fearch me ; for proba bly I might carry about me feveral weapons , which must needs be dangerous things , if they ...
... opinion of himself and his fubjects . He defired I would not take it ill , if he gave orders to certain proper officers to fearch me ; for proba bly I might carry about me feveral weapons , which must needs be dangerous things , if they ...
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... opinion , because he affured us ( if we understood him right , for he expreffed himself very imperfectly ) that he ... opinions derived from the relations of travellers , by fhew- ing , how little truth need to be misunderstood to make ...
... opinion , because he affured us ( if we understood him right , for he expreffed himself very imperfectly ) that he ... opinions derived from the relations of travellers , by fhew- ing , how little truth need to be misunderstood to make ...
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... opinions of his learned men about it , which were va- rious and remote , as the reader n may well imagine without my repeating ; although indeed I could not very perfectly understand them . I then gave up my filver and copper money , my ...
... opinions of his learned men about it , which were va- rious and remote , as the reader n may well imagine without my repeating ; although indeed I could not very perfectly understand them . I then gave up my filver and copper money , my ...
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Page 170 - It is true, upon experiment they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop. However, it is not doubted that this invention may be capable of great improvement. I...
Page 126 - 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.
Page 213 - 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...
Page 19 - I awaked, by a very ridiculous accident; for, the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep. They climbed up into the engine, and advancing very...
Page 149 - Their heads were all reclined either to the right or the left ; one of their eyes turned inward, and the other directly up to the zenith. Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars, interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
Page 109 - Their skins appeared so coarse and uneven, so variously coloured, when I saw them near, with a mole here and there as broad as a trencher, and hairs hanging from it thicker than packthreads, to say nothing further concerning the rest of their persons.
Page 44 - I had now fastened all the hooks, and taking the knot in my hand, began to pull ; but not a ship would stir, for they were all too fast held by their anchors, so that the boldest part of my enterprise remained. I therefore let go the cord, and leaving the hooks fixed to the ships, I resolutely cut with my knife the cables that fastened...
Page 125 - I told him of an invention discovered between three and four hundred years ago, to make a certain powder, into an heap of which the smallest spark of fire falling, would kindle the whole in a moment, although it were as big as a mountain, and make it all fly up in the air together, with a noise and agitation greater than thunder.
Page 168 - I was received very kindly by the Warden, and went for many days to the Academy. Every room hath in it one or more projectors, and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour.
Page 310 - I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever ; therefore I advise him to consider of it, and settle his affairs in time.