Gulliver's travels into several remote regions of the worldCassell & Company, 1870 - 352 pàgines |
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... excellent mathematicians , * and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics by the countenance and encouragement of the emperor , who is a renowned patron of learning . This prince has several machines fixed on wheels , for the carriage ...
... excellent mathematicians , * and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics by the countenance and encouragement of the emperor , who is a renowned patron of learning . This prince has several machines fixed on wheels , for the carriage ...
Pàgina 17
... excellent horseman , kept his seat till his attendants ran in , and held the bridle , while his majesty had time to dismount . When he alighted , he surveyed me round with great admiration ; but kept beyond the length of my chain . He ...
... excellent horseman , kept his seat till his attendants ran in , and held the bridle , while his majesty had time to dismount . When he alighted , he surveyed me round with great admiration ; but kept beyond the length of my chain . He ...
Pàgina 57
... excellent and working wit , did find out the device of making baronets , which brought to your majesty's coffers well nigh £ 100,000 . " " This idea , " says Sir Walter Scott , " seems to be borrowed from Cyrano Bergerac's voyage to the ...
... excellent and working wit , did find out the device of making baronets , which brought to your majesty's coffers well nigh £ 100,000 . " " This idea , " says Sir Walter Scott , " seems to be borrowed from Cyrano Bergerac's voyage to the ...
Pàgina 62
... excellent . I have had a sirloin so large that I have been forced to make three bites of it ; but this is rare . My servants were astonished to see me eat it , bones and all , as in our country we do the leg of a lark . Their geese and ...
... excellent . I have had a sirloin so large that I have been forced to make three bites of it ; but this is rare . My servants were astonished to see me eat it , bones and all , as in our country we do the leg of a lark . Their geese and ...
Pàgina 63
... excellent lady , who was an innocent sufferer upon my account . The treasurer took a fancy to be jealous of his wife , from the malice of some evil tongues , who informed him that her grace had taken a violent affection for my person ...
... excellent lady , who was an innocent sufferer upon my account . The treasurer took a fancy to be jealous of his wife , from the malice of some evil tongues , who informed him that her grace had taken a violent affection for my person ...
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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.