 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...escaped many vices of your country. Bat by what : H a 3 have gathered from your own relation, and tha answers I have with much pains wringed* and extorted...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.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...original, might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions. It does not appear, from all you have...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. 231.— THE INDUSTRY OF THE BRITISH NATION. CHENEVIX. [THE folio wing extract is from a posthumous... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 pages
...government, and society; and he makes the king conclude, from the little stranger's narrative, " that, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and...little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl on the surface of the earth." Now this, we apprehend, which is but a fair specimen of the general conclusions... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But hy what I have gathered from your own relation, and the...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, whicfi... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 316 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... | |
 | William Watts - 1846 - 132 pages
...much pains, wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be ihe most pernicious race of little, odious vermin, that...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." — Gulliver's Travels. " My horror and astonishment are not to be described, when I observed in this... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed.and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. 230.— GOOD AND BAD FOBTUNE. PETSABOH [FRANCESCO PETBAKCA is one of the greatest names of modern Europe:... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1856 - 342 pages
...a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdignag —• that men are 6 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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As for yourself," continued the king, " who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers... 
