 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 212 pages
...those persons w-ho 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...falling, succeeds in the office. Very often the chief 142 ministers themselves are commanded to show their skill, and to convince the Emperor that they have... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favour at court. They are trained in !h ! P ! shew their skill, and to convince the emperor that they have not 'lost their faculty. Klimnap, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1903 - 440 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,... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1902 - 476 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...death 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,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 288 pages
...trained in this art from their youth. When a great office is vacant, either by death or dismissal, five or six of those candidates petition the emperor...whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds to the office. Very often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to show their skill, and to... | |
 | Sophie Shilleto Smith - 1910 - 586 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...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,... | |
 | 1911 - 606 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 the candidates petition the Emperor to entertain his Majesty and the court with a dance on the rope,... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 268 pages
...by those persons who are candidates for great places and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble...or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertajn his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope ; and whoever jumps the highest, without... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1914 - 168 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...entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the 1 Show. rope; and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office. Very often the... | |
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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,... 
