| English dictation - 1881 - 156 pages
...answers I have with much pains wringed from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CXXXIX. Nothing so soon awakens the malevolent passions as the facility of gratification. The courts... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 pages
...creatures so contemptible as human beings, and are not blind to their own faults, reflected in these, "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." But human nature, in Gulliver, is content " to wink at its own littleness," and to forget the gulf... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 pages
...creatures so contemptible as human beings, and are not blind to their own faults, reflected in these, "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." But human nature, in Gulliver, is content " to wink at its own littleness," and to forget the gulf... | |
| Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 360 pages
...country ; or counsellors for their wisdom. * * * I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth ! In the voyage to Laputa the satire is directed against the vanity of human wisdom, and the folly... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 128 pages
...have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAPTER THE LAST. THE KING AND QUEEN MAKE A PROGRESS TO THE FRONTIERS. THE AUTHOR ATTENDS THEM. THE... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 pages
...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,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAPTER VI. THE AUTHOR'S LOVE OF HIS COUNTRY. HE MAKES A PROPOSAL OF MUCH ADVANTAGE TO THE KING, WHICH... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 466 pages
...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,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAPTER Vlf, THE AUTHOR'S LOVE OF HIS COUNTRY. HE MAKES A PROPOSAL OF MUCH ADVANTAGE TO THE KING, WHICH... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 516 pages
...fog találni. » 73 71 I cannot but conclude the buik of your natives to be the most pernicious raee of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. 72 «Szerény indítvány annak kivitelére, hogy a szegények gyermekei ne legyenek szűleik vagy... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 pages
...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...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. "... But great allowances should be given to a king who lives wholly secluded from the rest of the... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 pages
...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...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." . . . But great allowances should be given to a king who lives wholly secluded from the rest of the... | |
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