The Works of Jonathan Swift, المجلد 3G. Faulkner, 1743 |
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... told , were hurt with the Falls they got by leaping from my Sides upon the Ground . However , they foon re- turned ; and one of them , who ventured fo far as to get a full Sight of my Face , lifting up his Hands and Eyes by way of ...
... told , were hurt with the Falls they got by leaping from my Sides upon the Ground . However , they foon re- turned ; and one of them , who ventured fo far as to get a full Sight of my Face , lifting up his Hands and Eyes by way of ...
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... told ; for while the whole Operation was performing , I lay in a profound Sleep , by the Force of that foporiferous Medicine infufed into my Liquor . Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest Horfes , each about four Inches and a half ...
... told ; for while the whole Operation was performing , I lay in a profound Sleep , by the Force of that foporiferous Medicine infufed into my Liquor . Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest Horfes , each about four Inches and a half ...
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... told , for I could not fee them . It was reckoned that above an hundred thousand Inhabitants came out of the Town upon the fame Errand ; and in fpight of my Guards , I believe believe there could not be fewer than ten thousand , A ...
... told , for I could not fee them . It was reckoned that above an hundred thousand Inhabitants came out of the Town upon the fame Errand ; and in fpight of my Guards , I believe believe there could not be fewer than ten thousand , A ...
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... told , fome of my Maligners have been pleased , upon this and other Occafions , to call in Question . WHEN this Adventure was at an End , I came back out of my Houfe , having Occafion for fresh Air . The Emperor was already defcended ...
... told , fome of my Maligners have been pleased , upon this and other Occafions , to call in Question . WHEN this Adventure was at an End , I came back out of my Houfe , having Occafion for fresh Air . The Emperor was already defcended ...
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... told us , that in his own Country his Practice was to shave his Beard with one of these , and to cut his Meat with the o- ther . There were two Pockets which we could not enter : These he called his Fobs ; they were two large Slits cut ...
... told us , that in his own Country his Practice was to shave his Beard with one of these , and to cut his Meat with the o- ther . There were two Pockets which we could not enter : These he called his Fobs ; they were two large Slits cut ...
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الصفحة 159 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
الصفحة 219 - ... the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded six and thirty of the lads to read the several lines softly as they appeared upon the frame ; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys who were scribes.
الصفحة 3 - November, which was the beginning of summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock, within half a cable's length of the ship; but the wind was so strong, that we were driven directly upon it, and immediately split.
الصفحة 29 - ... and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office. Very often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to...
الصفحة 163 - I was soon informed, both by conversation and reading their histories ; for, in the course of many ages, they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject ; the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the king for absolute dominion.
الصفحة 43 - These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire. It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
الصفحة 98 - I must confess no object ever disgusted me so much as the sight of her monstrous breast, which I cannot tell what to compare with, so as to give the curious reader an idea of its bulk, shape and colour.
الصفحة 220 - And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if the women, in conjunction with the vulgar and illiterate, had not...
الصفحة 29 - This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth or liberal education. When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the 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.
الصفحة 259 - They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld, and the women more horrible than the men ; besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired an additional ghastliness, in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be described...