Gulliver's travels into several remote regions of the worldCassell & Company, 1870 - 352 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... favour of their own political views . As a Tory , Swift was ever ready to have a fling at these agitators , who so largely contributed to put his party out of power . There is something intensely ludicrous in representing the pigmy ...
... favour of their own political views . As a Tory , Swift was ever ready to have a fling at these agitators , who so largely contributed to put his party out of power . There is something intensely ludicrous in representing the pigmy ...
Pàgina 17
... FAVOUR BY HIS MILD DISPOSITION . - HIS POCKETS ARE SEARCHED , AND HIS SWORD AND PISTOLS TAKEN FROM HIM . HEN I found myself on my feet , I looked about me , and must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect . The country ...
... FAVOUR BY HIS MILD DISPOSITION . - HIS POCKETS ARE SEARCHED , AND HIS SWORD AND PISTOLS TAKEN FROM HIM . HEN I found myself on my feet , I looked about me , and must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect . The country ...
Pàgina 26
... favour of the Pretender during the early part of the reign of George I. These reports exhibited a great deal of ignorance , a great deal of party spirit , and no small amount of credulity . It was wittily observed that the committees ...
... favour of the Pretender during the early part of the reign of George I. These reports exhibited a great deal of ignorance , a great deal of party spirit , and no small amount of credulity . It was wittily observed that the committees ...
Pàgina 30
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Pàgina 33
... favour . The ceremony is performed in his majesty's great chamber of state , where the candidates are to undergo a trial of dexterity , very different from the former , and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any ...
... favour . The ceremony is performed in his majesty's great chamber of state , where the candidates are to undergo a trial of dexterity , very different from the former , and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any ...
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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.