 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education. When u great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble...those candidates petition the emperor to entertain hii* majesty and the court with a dance on the rope ; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 pages
...who are candidates for great employments and high favour at court. They are trained in this art frum their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or...death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six ol those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble...liberal education. When a great office is vacant, cither by death or disgrace (which often happen?), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 pages
...those persons, who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble...often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to shew their skill, and to convince the emperor that they have not lost their faculty. Flimnap, the treasurer,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 466 pages
...those persons, who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble...often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to shew their skill, and to convince the emperor that they have not lost their faculty. Flimnap, the treasurer,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1887 - 296 pages
...those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favor at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble...and the court with a dance on the rope ; and whoever j umps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office. Very often the chief ministers themselves... | |
 | 1890 - 864 pages
...those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favor at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble...often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to shew their skill, and to convince the Emperor that they have not lost their faculty. Flimnap, the treasurer,... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 330 pages
...practiced by those who are candidates for great employments and high favor at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble...or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of these candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 520 pages
...those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favor at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble...or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of these candidates petition the Emperor to entertain his Majesty and the court with a dance on the rope,... | |
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This diversion is only practised by those persons, who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education. When a great office is vacant,... 
