 | John Booth - 1865 - 400 pages
...gathered from your own relation and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth.' ("j In Swift's time two keen and memorable controversies divided the literary world,... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...gathered from your own relation and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth.' (") In Swift's time two keen and memorable controversies divided the literary world,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1865 - 360 pages
...with a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdignag — 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 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...little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl on the surface of the earth." NOJSL-. this^w^_a^piehejnd,,jwJhHib_.^ but a fair specimen of Jibe-general... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 500 pages
...him from head to foot. 2. I cannot but conçlude the bulk of your natives to be the most perniçious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. 3. « Proposition modeste pour empêcher que les enfants des pauvres en Irlande ne soient une charge... | |
 | 1869 - 634 pages
...extorted from you, I cannot but conclude you to be one of the most pernicious little odious reptiles that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." The likeness of George in this print is very good ; but the portrait of Napoleon presents quite the... | |
 | 1869 - 852 pages
...extorted from you, I caenot but conclude you to be one of the most pernicious little odious reptiles that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." The likeness of George in this print is very good ; but the portrait of Napoleon presents quite the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1871 - 406 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." CHAPTER VII. The author's love of his country — He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 pages
...aggravated and multiplied these vices, and concluding with the king of Brobdignag that our species is 'the most pernicious race of little odious vermin...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' * Five years after this treatise on man, he wrote in favour of unhappy Ireland a pamphlet which is... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...aggravated and multiplied these vices, and concluding with the king of Brobdignag that our species is 'the most pernicious race of little odious vermin...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' * Five years after this treatise on man, he wrote in favour of unhappy Ireland a pamphlet which is... | |
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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. 
