The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, المجلد 7J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... of himself , and the accidents of his Voyage CHAP . V. The author , at his master's command , informs him of the state of England . The causes of war among 305 313 Page 320 the princes of Europe . The author begins CONTENTS . ix.
... of himself , and the accidents of his Voyage CHAP . V. The author , at his master's command , informs him of the state of England . The causes of war among 305 313 Page 320 the princes of Europe . The author begins CONTENTS . ix.
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... cause of my waking so suddenly . We made a long march the remaining part of the day , and rested at night with five hundred guards on each side of me , half with torches , and half with bows and arrows , ready to shoot me if I should ...
... cause of my waking so suddenly . We made a long march the remaining part of the day , and rested at night with five hundred guards on each side of me , half with torches , and half with bows and arrows , ready to shoot me if I should ...
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... my breaking loose ; that my diet * Gulliver has observed great exactness in the just proportion and appearance of the objects thus lessened . ORRERY . would be very expensive , and might cause a fa- 36 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS : PART I.
... my breaking loose ; that my diet * Gulliver has observed great exactness in the just proportion and appearance of the objects thus lessened . ORRERY . would be very expensive , and might cause a fa- 36 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS : PART I.
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... cause a fa- mine . Sometimes they determined to starve me , or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows , which would soon dispatch me ; but again they considered , that the stench of so large a carcass might ...
... cause a fa- mine . Sometimes they determined to starve me , or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows , which would soon dispatch me ; but again they considered , that the stench of so large a carcass might ...
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... cause , if I had then known the nature of princes and ministers , which I have since observed in many other courts , and their methods of treating criminals less obnoxious than myself , I should , with great alacrity and readiness ...
... cause , if I had then known the nature of princes and ministers , which I have since observed in many other courts , and their methods of treating criminals less obnoxious than myself , I should , with great alacrity and readiness ...
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الصفحة 175 - 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.
الصفحة 46 - Emperor to entertain his Majesty and the court with a dance on the rope, and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office. Very often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to show their skill, and to convince the Emperor that they have not lost their faculty.
الصفحة 17 - College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies: but the charge of maintaining me (although I had a very scanty allowance) being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in...
الصفحة 243 - But for short conversations a man may carry implements in his pockets and under his arms, enough to supply him, and in his house he cannot be at a loss. Therefore the room where company meet who practise this art, is full of all things ready at hand, requisite to furnish matter for this kind of artificial converse.
الصفحة 243 - An expedient was therefore offered that, since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on.
الصفحة 21 - I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir ; for as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground, and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs.
الصفحة 60 - ... and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers. Whereupon, the emperor, his father published' an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. The people so highly resented this law, that our histories*tell us, there have been six rebellions raised on that account; wherein one emperor lost his life, and another his crown.
الصفحة 29 - I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw...
الصفحة 368 - When I thought of my family, my friends, my countrymen, or human race in general, I considered them as they really were, Yahoos in shape and disposition, perhaps a little more civilized, and qualified with the gift of speech, but making no other use of reason, than to improve and multiply those vices, whereof their brethren in this country had only the share that nature allotted them.
الصفحة 352 - As these noble Houyhnhnms are endowed by nature with a general disposition to all virtues, and have no conceptions or ideas of what is evil in a rational creature, so their grand maxim is, to cultivate reason, and to be wholly governed by it.