The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, المجلد 7J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... pleased with the energy of style , and accuracy of description , in particu- lar places ; and a malevolent heart may triumph in the satire : but we can never relish it as a fable , because it is at once unnatural and self - contra ...
... pleased with the energy of style , and accuracy of description , in particu- lar places ; and a malevolent heart may triumph in the satire : but we can never relish it as a fable , because it is at once unnatural and self - contra ...
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... pleased to answer , That you were afraid of giving offence ; that people in power were very watchful over the press , and apt not only to interpret , but to punish every thing which looked like an inuendo " ( as I think you call it ...
... pleased to answer , That you were afraid of giving offence ; that people in power were very watchful over the press , and apt not only to interpret , but to punish every thing which looked like an inuendo " ( as I think you call it ...
الصفحة 26
... pleased . Upon this , the hurga and his train withdrew , with much civility and cheerful countenances . Soon after I heard a ge peral shout , with frequent repetitions of the words Peplom selan ; and I felt great numbers of people on my ...
... pleased . Upon this , the hurga and his train withdrew , with much civility and cheerful countenances . Soon after I heard a ge peral shout , with frequent repetitions of the words Peplom selan ; and I felt great numbers of people on my ...
الصفحة 32
... pleased , upon this and other occasions , to call in ques- tion . When this adventure was at an end , I came back out of my house , having occasion for fresh air . The emperor was already descended from the tower , and advancing on ...
... pleased , upon this and other occasions , to call in ques- tion . When this adventure was at an end , I came back out of my house , having occasion for fresh air . The emperor was already descended from the tower , and advancing on ...
الصفحة 38
... pleased to assist my masters in teaching me . We began already to converse together in some sort ; and the first words I learnt , were to express my desire " that he would please to give me my liberty ; " which I every day repeated on ...
... pleased to assist my masters in teaching me . We began already to converse together in some sort ; and the first words I learnt , were to express my desire " that he would please to give me my liberty ; " which I every day repeated on ...
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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.