| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 392 pàgines
...with much pains * wringed and extorted from you, 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. CHAP. VII. The author s love of his country. He makes a proposal of much advantage... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pàgines
...pains wringed and *' extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk * "of " of your natives to be the most pernicious race of " little 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, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pàgines
...with much pains wringed and extorted from you, 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." CHAP. VII. The Author's Love of his Country. He makes a Proposal of much Advantage... | |
| 1830 - 1024 pàgines
...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 nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." Something of the same sentiment accompanied us at intervals through this Life... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 446 pàgines
...''wringed' it should Lave been • wrung.1 — S. you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of 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 pàgines
...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 nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." Something of the same sentiment accompanied us at intervals through this Life... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 532 pàgines
...by the King of Brob^ngnag, in the celebrated declaration, that the bulk of Gulliver's countrymen are the " most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that ^Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." The vehicle of the allegory, both in the First and Second "Voyage, is less shocking... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1834 - 536 pàgines
...and extorted from you, 1 cannot but conclude the bulk of vour natives to be the most pernicious nice of little, odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the fac¿ of th¿ earth." The remarks upon the system are true, but the inference as to the effect is erroneous.... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 pàgines
...with much pains wringed and extorted from you, 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. 231.— THE INDUSTRY OF THE BRITISH NATION. CHENEVIX. [THE folio wing extract... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pàgines
...with much pains wringed and extorted from you, 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 on the surface of the earth." Now this, we apprehend, which is but a fair specimen of the general conclusions... | |
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