 | Jonathan Swift - 1726 - 342 pages
...would rip up the Pavements, tear the Houfes to pieces, burft and throwSplinters on every Side, dafliing out the Brains of all who came near. That I knew the Ingredients very well, which were were cheap, and common 5 I underftood the Manner of compounding them, and could direft his Workmen... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1742 - 386 pages
...would rip up the Pavement;, tear the Houfes to Pieces, burft and throw Splinters on every Side, dafhing out the Brains of all who came near. That I knew the...Ingredients very well, which were cheap, and common ; I underltooci the Manner of compounding them, and could direct his Workmen how to make thofe Tubes of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1743 - 430 pages
...would rip up the Pavement, tear the Houfes to Pieces, burft and throw Splinters on every Side, darning out the Brains of all who came near. That, I knew...Ingredients very well, which were cheap and common •, I underftood the Manner of compounding them, and could direct his Workmen how to make thofe Tubes of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 416 pages
...would rip up the pavements, tear the houfes to pieces, burft and throw Iplinters on every fide, darning out the brains of all who came near. That I knew the...ingredients very well, which •were cheap and common; I underftood the manner of compounding them, and could direft his workmen how to make thofe ;tubes of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 468 pages
...would rip up the pavements, tear the houfes to pieces, burft and throw fplinters on every fide, dafhing out the brains of all who came near. That I knew the...ingredients very well, which were cheap and common ; I underftood the manner of compounding them, and could direct his workmen how to make thofe tubes of... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pages
...would rip up the pavements, tear the houfes to pieces, buril and throw fplinters on every fide, dafhing out the brains of all who came near. That I knew the...ingredients very well, which were cheap and common ; J anderilood the manner of compounding them, and could diretl his workmen how to make thofe tubes... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...and rigging, divide hundreds of bodies in the middle, and lay all waste before them. That we often put this powder into large hollow balls of iron, and...splinters on every side, dashing out the brains of ail who came near. That I knew the ingredients very well, which were cheap and common j I understood... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...bodies in the middle, and lay all waste before them. That we often put this powder into large lioliow balls of iron, and discharged them by an engine into some city we were besieging, which would rip up (he pavements, tear the houses to pieces, burst and throw splinters on every side, dashing out the... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...monarch, when beseiging any city of his enemies, to ' rip up the pavements, tear the houses to pieces, and burst and throw splinters on every side, dashing out the brains of all who came near.' What reception the proposal made is thus described : " The king was strack with horror at the description... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...monarch, when beseiging any city of his enemies, to ' rip up the pavements, tear the houses to pieces, and burst and throw splinters on every side, dashing out the brains of all who came near.' "What reception the proposal made is thus described : " The king was struck with horror at the description... | |
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... of an army at once, but batter the strongest walls to the ground, sink down ships with a thousand men in each to the bottom of the sea; and, when linked together by a chain, would cut through masts and rigging, divide hundreds of bodies in the middle,... 
