 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 Seiten
...Receiving a loss, is certainly not a good expression ; it should be, ' the losses they sustained.' one perfection is required, toward the procurement...ever 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 Seiten
...answers I have with much pains wringed and *' extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk * "of " of your natives to be the most pernicious race of...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 actual... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 524 Seiten
...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...Instead of ' wringed/ it should have been ' wrung.' S. CHAP. VII. THE AUTHOR'S LOVE OF HIS COUNTRY. HE MAKES A PROPOSAL OF MUCH ADVANTAGE TO THE K1JIG,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 352 Seiten
...Grildrig, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringer! and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk...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 - 1812 - 374 Seiten
...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, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 Seiten
...But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringe4 and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAP. VII. The Author's Love of his Country. He makes a Proposal of muck Advantage to the King, which... | |
 | 1830 - 1024 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...much 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...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... | |
 | 1830 - 1046 Seiten
...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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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... 
