Gulliver's travels into several remote regions of the worldCassell & Company, 1870 - 352 pàgines |
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... CARRIED ME TO THE KING " . " THEY CONCLUDED UNANIMOUSLY THAT I WAS ONLY ' RELPLUM SCALCATH ' " " I COULD ONLY REVENGE MYSELF BY CALLING HIM BROTHER 112 · · 115 117 121 66 ' SOME OF THEM SEIZED MY CAKE , AND CARRIED IT PIECEMEAL AWAY ...
... CARRIED ME TO THE KING " . " THEY CONCLUDED UNANIMOUSLY THAT I WAS ONLY ' RELPLUM SCALCATH ' " " I COULD ONLY REVENGE MYSELF BY CALLING HIM BROTHER 112 · · 115 117 121 66 ' SOME OF THEM SEIZED MY CAKE , AND CARRIED IT PIECEMEAL AWAY ...
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... CARRIED UP THE COUNTRY . RABELAIS four years ; and money , Y father had a small estate in Not- tinghamshire ; I was the third of five sons . He sent me to Emanuel Col- lege in Cambridge , at fourteen years old , where I resided three ...
... CARRIED UP THE COUNTRY . RABELAIS four years ; and money , Y father had a small estate in Not- tinghamshire ; I was the third of five sons . He sent me to Emanuel Col- lege in Cambridge , at fourteen years old , where I resided three ...
Pàgina 11
... carried as a prisoner . However , he made other signs to let me understand that I should have meat and drink enough , and very good treatment . Whereupon I once more thought of attempting to break my bonds ; but again , when I felt the ...
... carried as a prisoner . However , he made other signs to let me understand that I should have meat and drink enough , and very good treatment . Whereupon I once more thought of attempting to break my bonds ; but again , when I felt the ...
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... carry me to the capital city . This resolution , perhaps , may appear very bold and dangerous , and I am confident would not ... carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea . Five hundred carpenters and engineers were ...
... carry me to the capital city . This resolution , perhaps , may appear very bold and dangerous , and I am confident would not ... carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea . Five hundred carpenters and engineers were ...
Pàgina 15
... carried away . In this edifice it was determined I should lodge . The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high and almost two feet wide , through which I could easily creep . On each side of the gate was a small window ...
... carried away . In this edifice it was determined I should lodge . The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high and almost two feet wide , through which I could easily creep . On each side of the gate was a small window ...
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Pàgina 156 - 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.
Pàgina 215 - 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.
Pàgina 294 - It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong...
Pàgina 6 - ... my mouth, laden with baskets full of meat, which had been provided and sent thither by the King's orders, upon the first intelligence he received of me. I observed there was the flesh of several animals, but could not distinguish them by the taste. There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark.
Pàgina 304 - 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.
Pàgina 22 - He put this engine to our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill. And we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships ; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion...
Pàgina 193 - If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometrical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat.
Pàgina 3 - 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.
Pàgina 26 - I took all possible methods to cultivate this favourable disposition. The natives came by degrees to be less apprehensive of any danger from me. I would sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my hand.
Pàgina 291 - Yahoos, might easily believe it possible for so vile an animal to be capable of every action I had named, if their strength and cunning equalled their malice. But as my discourse had increased his abhorrence of the whole species, so he found it gave him a disturbance in his mind, to. which he was wholly a stranger before.