The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Nide 2C. Bathurst, C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer., 1755 |
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... pofition to the beauty of vir- tue , and to amend the falfe fyftems of philofophy by point- ing out the errors , and apply- ing falutary means to avoid them . ORRERY . A nar- narrow fortune , I was bound apprentice to Mr. James.
... pofition to the beauty of vir- tue , and to amend the falfe fyftems of philofophy by point- ing out the errors , and apply- ing falutary means to avoid them . ORRERY . A nar- narrow fortune , I was bound apprentice to Mr. James.
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... majesty had not provided + Gulliver has obferved great on and appearances of the ob exactnefs in the juft proporti- jects thus leffened . ORRERY . by by several proclamations and orders of ftate against this inconveniency TO LILLIPUT . 29.
... majesty had not provided + Gulliver has obferved great on and appearances of the ob exactnefs in the juft proporti- jects thus leffened . ORRERY . by by several proclamations and orders of ftate against this inconveniency TO LILLIPUT . 29.
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... ORRERY . This is a mistake of the no- ble commentator , for Gulliver has here given a political ac- count of no country but Eng- land : it is however a mistake to which any commentator would have been liable , who had read little more ...
... ORRERY . This is a mistake of the no- ble commentator , for Gulliver has here given a political ac- count of no country but Eng- land : it is however a mistake to which any commentator would have been liable , who had read little more ...
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... ORRERY .. This note in general feems to be a teftimony of his lord- fhip's approbation , but it is not eafy to discover what in parti- cular is meant by the word real , fince every picture is a real picture , whether it be co- pied from ...
... ORRERY .. This note in general feems to be a teftimony of his lord- fhip's approbation , but it is not eafy to discover what in parti- cular is meant by the word real , fince every picture is a real picture , whether it be co- pied from ...
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... we ftood . Alexander was called up into the room : it was with great difficulty that I understood his Greek An hint from Gulliver , that we have loft the true Greek idiom . ORRERY , and and had but little of my own . He affured 344 A ...
... we ftood . Alexander was called up into the room : it was with great difficulty that I understood his Greek An hint from Gulliver , that we have loft the true Greek idiom . ORRERY , and and had but little of my own . He affured 344 A ...
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Sivu 215 - vices of your country. But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the anfwers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the molt pernicious race of little
Sivu ix - .body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards, the fun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confufed noife about me; but^ in the pofture I lay, could fee nothing except the fky. In a little time I felt fomething alive moving on my left
Sivu 369 - in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be defcribed; and among half a dozen I foon diftinguifhed, which was the eldeft, although there was not above a century or two between them. The reader will eafily believe, that from what I had heard and feen, my keen
Sivu xiv - hogiheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tafted like a fmall wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious. They brought me a fecond hogihead,
Sivu 74 - is fitted to fome ftation or other, and that providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a myftery to be comprehended only by a few perfons of fublime genius, of which there feldom are three born in an age: but they fuppofe truth, juftice, temperance, and the like, to be in every
Sivu xv - to be the largeft in the whole kingdom¿, which, having been polluted fome years before by an unnatural murder, was according to the zeal of thofe people looked upon as prophane, and therefore had been applied to common ufe, and all the ornaments and furniture carried away. In this edifice it was determined I
Sivu 316 - would lay down their loads, open their facks, and hold con verfation for an hour together; then put up their implements, help each other to refume their burthens, and take their leave. But for Ihort converfations a man may carry implements in his pockets and
Sivu 26 - globes, or balls, of a moft ponderous metal, about the bignefs of our heads, and required a ftrong hand to lift them: the other cell contained a heap of certain black grains, but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of our hands. This is an
Sivu 181 - barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to ftoop, and knocked me down flat on my face ; but I received no other hurt, and the dwarf was pardoned at my defire, becaufe I had given the provocation. Another day Glumdalclitcb left me on a
Sivu 21 - behaviour, the good opinion of himfelf and his fubjects. He defired I would not take it ill, if he gave orders to certain proper officers to fearch me ; for probably I might carry about me feveral weapons, which muft needs be dangerous things, if they anfwered the bulk of fo prodigious a perfon. I faid, his majefty