 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 532 pages
...by the King of Brob^ngnag, in the celebrated declaration, that the bulk of Gulliver's countrymen are the " most pernicious race of little odious vermin,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." The vehicle of the allegory, both in the First and Second "Voyage, is less shocking to the understanding... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...and tha answers I have with much pains wringed* and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever sufiered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' CHAPTER VII. The Author's love of his country. He... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1834 - 536 pages
...and extorted from you, 1 cannot but conclude the bulk of vour natives to be the most pernicious nice of little, odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the fac¿ of th¿ earth." The remarks upon the system are true, but the inference as to the effect is erroneous.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. 231.— THE INDUSTRY OF THE BRITISH NATION. CHENEVIX. [THE folio wing extract is from a posthumous... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 pages
...and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of...little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl on the surface of the earth." Now this, we apprehend, which is but a fair specimen of the general conclusions... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAPTER VII. The author's love of his country. He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, whicfi... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 318 pages
...with a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdignag — that men are ' the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' Something of the same sentiment accompanied us at intervals through this Life of Bentley, and the records... | |
 | William Watts - 1846 - 132 pages
...much pains, wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be ihe most pernicious race of little, odious vermin, that...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." — Gulliver's Travels. " My horror and astonishment are not to be described, when I observed in this... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 pages
...and the answers I have with much pains wringed* and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." * Instead of " wringed " it should have been " wrung." — Sheridan. CHAPTER VH. The author's love... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1856 - 342 pages
...a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdignag —• that men are 6 the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' Something of the same sentiment accompanied us at intervals through this Life of Bentley, and the records... | |
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I cannot but conclude the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth. 
