 | Jonathan Swift - 1875 - 430 sivua
...small wages, who might get a hundred times more by cutting their throats.* He laughed at my odd kind of arithmetic, as he was pleased to call it, in reckoning...the several sects among us in religion and politics. He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 602 sivua
...Davenant, will be found in some etitions of Chalmers's Estimate. t Dalrymple's Appendix to Part II. Book I. The practice of reckoning the population by sects was long fashionable. Gulliver says oi the king of Brobdingnag, " He laughed at my odd arithmetic, as he was pleased to call it, in reckoning... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 sivua
...small wages, who might get a hundred times more by cutting their throats. He laughed at my odd kind of arithmetic, as he was pleased to call it, in reckoning...the several sects among us in religion and politics. He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 672 sivua
...deliberate opinion in the following passage. ' He [the King of Brobdingnag] laughed at my odd kind of arithmetic, as he was pleased to call it, in reckoning...the several sects among us in religion and politics. He said he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 592 sivua
...long fashionable. Gulliver says oi the king of Brobdingnag, " He laughed at ray odd arithmetic, is he was pleased to call it, in reckoning the numbers...drawn from the several sects among us in religion und politics." less than three times the populntion which is now collected in her gigantic capital.... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 734 sivua
...religion in England, that the subject, if mentioned in society, excited nothing but laughter, and that not numbers of our people by a computation drawn from the several sects among as in religion and politics. He said he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial... | |
 | William Edward H. Lecky - 1879 - 668 sivua
...deliberate opinion in the following passage. 'He [the King of Brobdingnag] laughed at my odd kind of arithmetic, as he was pleased to call it, in reckoning...people by a computation drawn from the several sects •'•_' us in religion and politics. ••I IK- knew no reason why those who entertain opinions... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 sivua
...wages, who might get a hunJred times more by cutting their throats?"* He laughed at my "odd kind of arithmetic," as he was pleased to call it, " in reckoning the numbers of our people by • computation drawn from the several sects among us in religion and politics." He said " he knew... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1882 - 420 sivua
...small wages, who might get a hundred times more by cutting their throats.* He laughed at my odd kind of arithmetic, as he was pleased to call it, in reckoning...the several sects among us in religion and politics. He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 466 sivua
...wages, who might get a hundred times more by cutting their throats ? " He laughed at my "odd kind of arithmetic," as he was pleased, to call it, " in reckoning...several sects among us, in religion and politics." He said, " He knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public, should be... | |
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The practice of reckoning the population by sects was long fashionable. Gulliver says of the King of Brobdingnag ; " He laughed at my odd arithmetic, as he was pleased to call it, in reckoning the numbers of our people by a computation drawn from the... 
