 | Frank Stringfellow - 1994 - 194 sivua
...religious differences, the king responds to Gulliver as follows: He laughed at my odd Kind of Arithmetick (as he was pleased to call it) in reckoning the Numbers of our People by a Computationdrawn from the several Sects among us in Religion and Politicks. He said, he knew no Reason,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1995 - 500 sivua
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 | Jonathan Swift - 1996 - 356 sivua
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 | Jonathan Swift - 1996 - 244 sivua
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 | Michael Perelman - 2000 - 428 sivua
...been chiefly modeled after Petty's work. Gulliver's description of an “odd kind of arithmetick. . . in reckoning the numbers of our people by a computation...drawn from the several sects among us in religion and politicks” also seems to be an allusion to Petty (Swift 1726, 131). In addition, Swift ¿ 175) parodied... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 180 sivua
...small Wages, who might get an 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 - 2003 - 340 sivua
...small Wages, who might get an 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 - 2004 - 224 sivua
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 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 372 sivua
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 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 396 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... | |
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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... 
