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" 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. "
A History of English Prose Fiction from Sir Thomas Malory to George Eliot - Page 176
by Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 331 pages
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 9

Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 374 pages
...extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk * Instead of ' wrioged,' it should have been ' wrung.' of your natives to be, the most pernicious race of...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAP. VII. The author's love of his country. He make's a proposal of much advantage to the king, which...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 2

Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 352 pages
...gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringer! and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl on the surface of the earth." — Is it not strange, that so bold a satire on human nature, in its...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels. Directions to servants

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAP. VII. The Author's Love of his Country. He makes a Proposal of much Advantage to the King, which...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 28

1830 - 1024 pages
...with a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdingnag — that men are " the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." Something of the same sentiment accompanied us at intervals through this Life of Bentley, and the records...
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The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His ..., Volume 2

Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 446 pages
...pains wringed* and extorted from • Inileid of ''wringed' it should Lave been • wrung.1 — S. you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to erawl upon the surface of the earth CHAPTER IV. The Author's love of his country. lie makes a proposal...
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Prose

1826 - 450 pages
...gathered from your own relation, and the anfwers 1 have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the moft pernicious гiee of little odious vermin, that nature ever fuffered to crawl upon the furface...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 28

1830 - 1046 pages
...with a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdingnag — that men are " the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." Something of the same sentiment accompanied us at intervals through this Life of Bentley, and the records...
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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...gathered from your own relation, and tha answers I have with much pains wringed* and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever sufiered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' CHAPTER VII. The Author's love of his country. He...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2

Walter Scott - 1834 - 532 pages
...by the King of Brob^ngnag, in the celebrated declaration, that the bulk of Gulliver's countrymen are the " most pernicious race of little odious vermin,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." The vehicle of the allegory, both in the First and Second "Voyage, is less shocking to the understanding...
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1834 - 536 pages
...and extorted from you, 1 cannot but conclude the bulk of vour natives to be the most pernicious nice of little, odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the fac¿ of th¿ earth." The remarks upon the system are true, but the inference as to the effect is erroneous....
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