 After salutation, observing me to look earnestly upon a frame, which took up the greatest part of both the length and breadth of the room, he said perhaps I might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge by practical...  Medical Era: 1883-1884 - Page 3481884Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 392 pages
...might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge, by practical and mechanical operations. But the world would soon be...a more noble exalted thought, never sprang in any othef man's head. Every one knew, h<*w laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge, by practical and mechanical operations. But the world would soon be sensible of its usefulness ; and tie nattered himself, that a more noble exalted thought, never sprang in any other man's head. Every... | |
 | Hugh Leslie - 1808 - 356 pages
...might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge by practical and mechanical operations. But the world would soon be...usefulness; and he flattered himself, that a more exalted thought never sprang in any other man's head. Every one knew how laborious the' usual method... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 374 pages
...might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge, by practical and mechanical operations. But the world would soon be sensible of its usefulness 5 and he flattered himself, that a more noble exalted thought never sprang in any other man's head.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge, by practical and mechanical operations. But the world would soon be...head. Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences ; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge by practical and mechanical operations. But the world would soon be...flattered himself that a more noble exalted thought never sprung in any other man's head. Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 446 pages
...might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge, by practical and mechanical operations. But the world would soon be...flattered himself, that a more noble exalted thought never sprangin any other man's head. Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...knowlege, by practical and mechanical operations. But the world would soon 210 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, be sensible of its usefulness ; and he flattered himself that a more noble exalted thought naver sprang in any other man's head. Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...is made to declare that his invention "had employed all his thoughts from his youth," and to say " he flattered himself that a more noble, exalted thought never sprang in any other man's head." At any rate, the description of the invention is hardly an exaggeration of what appears to have been... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...Perhaps I might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge by practical mechanical operations. But the world would soon be...head. Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences ; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable... | |
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