The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical, المجلد 9W. Durell, 1812 |
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... creatures ? And indeed , to avoid so monstrous and de- testable a sight was one principal motive of my retire- ment hither . Thus much I thought proper to tell you in relation to yourself , and to the trust I reposed in you . I do in ...
... creatures ? And indeed , to avoid so monstrous and de- testable a sight was one principal motive of my retire- ment hither . Thus much I thought proper to tell you in relation to yourself , and to the trust I reposed in you . I do in ...
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... creature not six inches high , with a bow and arrow in his hands , and a quiver at his back . In the mean time , I felt at least forty more of the same kind ( as I conjectured ) following the first . I was in the ut- most astonishment ...
... creature not six inches high , with a bow and arrow in his hands , and a quiver at his back . In the mean time , I felt at least forty more of the same kind ( as I conjectured ) following the first . I was in the ut- most astonishment ...
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... creature as I must appear to them . After some time , when they observed that I made no more de- mands for meat , there appeared before me a person of high rank from his imperial majesty . His excellency , having mounted on the small of ...
... creature as I must appear to them . After some time , when they observed that I made no more de- mands for meat , there appeared before me a person of high rank from his imperial majesty . His excellency , having mounted on the small of ...
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... creature , as they at first apprehended , for it lay on the grass without motion ; and some of them had walked round it several times ; that , by mounting upon each other's shoulders , they had got to the top , which was flat and even ...
... creature , as they at first apprehended , for it lay on the grass without motion ; and some of them had walked round it several times ; that , by mounting upon each other's shoulders , they had got to the top , which was flat and even ...
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... creatures as large as yourself , our philosophers are in much doubt , and would rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon , or one of the stars ; because it is certain , that a hundred mortals of your bulk would in a short time ...
... creatures as large as yourself , our philosophers are in much doubt , and would rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon , or one of the stars ; because it is certain , that a hundred mortals of your bulk would in a short time ...
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الصفحة 179 - 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. 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 threatened to raise a rebellion, unless they might be allowed the liberty to speak with their tongues,...
الصفحة 190 - I had the honour to have much conversation with Brutus ; and was told, that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together : a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.
الصفحة 250 - I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
الصفحة 210 - ... been destroyed by time or public disturbances. But the usual way of computing how old they are, is, by asking them what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld ; and the women more horrible than the men.
الصفحة 176 - The first professor I saw was in a very large room, with forty pupils about him. After salutation, observing me to look earnestly upon a frame, which took up the greatest part of both the length and breadth of the room, he said perhaps I might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge by practical and mechanical operations.
الصفحة 120 - ... long; twenty or thirty of which tubes, charged with the proper quantity of powder and balls, would batter down the walls of the strongest town in his dominions in a few hours, or destroy the whole metropolis, if ever it should pretend to dispute his absolute commands. This I humbly offered to his majesty, as a small tribu-te of acknowledgment, in return of so many marks that I had received of his royal favour and protection.
الصفحة 26 - ... side, so that my face was parallel to his, and he stood but three yards off: however, I have had him since many times in my hand, and therefore cannot be deceived in the description. His dress was very plain and simple, and the fashion of it between the Asiatic and the European: but he had on his head a light helmet of gold, adorned with jewels, and a plume on the crest.
الصفحة 210 - ... to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end ; and by this defect, they are deprived of the only entertainment, whereof they might otherwise be capable. " The language of this country being always upon the flux, the...
الصفحة 118 - 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 18 - I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk upon my body, while one of my hands was at liberty, without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creature as I must appear to them.