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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... learned and upright ; pleaders honeft and modeft with fome tincture of common fenfe , and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law- books ; the young nobility's education entirely changed ; the physicians banished ; the female Ya- boos ...
... learned and upright ; pleaders honeft and modeft with fome tincture of common fenfe , and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law- books ; the young nobility's education entirely changed ; the physicians banished ; the female Ya- boos ...
Sivu 6
... learned to fpeak as they did . But I have fince found that the fea - Taboos are apt , like the land ones , to become newfangled in their words , which the latter change every year ; infomuch , as I remember upon each return to mine own ...
... learned to fpeak as they did . But I have fince found that the fea - Taboos are apt , like the land ones , to become newfangled in their words , which the latter change every year ; infomuch , as I remember upon each return to mine own ...
Sivu iii
... Learned men appointed to teach the author their lan- guage . He gains favour by his mild dif- pofition . His pockets are fearched , and his fword and piftols taken from him . p . 22 . Chap . III . The author diverts the emperor and his ...
... Learned men appointed to teach the author their lan- guage . He gains favour by his mild dif- pofition . His pockets are fearched , and his fword and piftols taken from him . p . 22 . Chap . III . The author diverts the emperor and his ...
Sivu 22
... Learned men appointed to teach the author their language . He gains favour by his mild difpofition . His pockets are fearched , and his fword and pistols taken from him . WHEN I found myself on my feet , I looked about me , and muft con ...
... Learned men appointed to teach the author their language . He gains favour by his mild difpofition . His pockets are fearched , and his fword and pistols taken from him . WHEN I found myself on my feet , I looked about me , and muft con ...
Sivu 41
... learned men about it , which were various and remote , as the reader may well ima- gine without my repeating ; although in- deed I could not very perfectly understand them . I then gave up my filver and cop- per money , my purse with ...
... learned men about it , which were various and remote , as the reader may well ima- gine without my repeating ; although in- deed I could not very perfectly understand them . I then gave up my filver and cop- per money , my purse with ...
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againſt almoſt animal anſwer aſked Balnibarbi becauſe Blefufcu cauſe cloaths cloſet converfation coun courſe court creature curiofity defcribed defign defired diſcovered diſtance emperor expreffed fafe faid fame feemed feen feet fent fervants feven feveral fhall fhew fhip fhort fhould fide fign fince firft firſt fize fome fometimes foon ftone ftrength fubject fuch fuffer gave Glumdalclitch greateſt hand hath himſelf honour horfe horſe houſe Houyhnhnms hundred iſland juftice king kingdom laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs likewife Lilliput mafter majeſty majeſty's manner miſtreſs moft moſt muſt myſelf nurſe obferved occafion paffed perfons pleaſed preſent prince purpoſe queen queſtions raiſe reaſon reft reſt ſaid ſee ſeemed ſeen ſeveral ſhe ſhip ſmall ſome ſpeak ſtate ſtrong thefe themſelves ther theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand took ufual underſtand underſtood uſe veffel voyage whereof whoſe words yaboos yahoos yards
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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