| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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