 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 pages
...born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly ; so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which however...their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld ; and the women more horrible... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Cooke Taylor - 1884 - 490 pages
...is born it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly : so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however,...old they are, is by asking them what kings or great person they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 458 pages
...is born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly: so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however, has not been kept above a thousand vears past, or at least has been destroyed by time or public disturbances. But the usual way of computing... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 460 pages
...i's born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly: so that you may know their age by Consulting the register, which, however, has not been kept above a thousand veurs past, or at least has been destroyed by time or public disturbances. But the usual way of computing... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 pages
...born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly ; so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however,...their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. hoot him. Some of this audience mayn't have read the last part of Gulliver, and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 pages
...born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly : so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however,...their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. these censurers were better acquainted with the noble and courteous disposition... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly ; so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however,...time or public disturbances. But the usual way of tomputing how old they are, is by asking them what kings or ureat persons they can remember, and then... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...horn, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly ; so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however,...their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. "They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld, and the women more horrible... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pages
...born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly ; so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however,...for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begiuhis reign after they we're fourscore years old. "They "were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld,... | |
 | W. C. TAYLOR - 1890 - 890 pages
...is born it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly : so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however,...old they are, is by asking them what kings or great person they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind... | |
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... been destroyed by time or public disturbances. But the usual way of computing how old they are, is, by asking them what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin... 
