 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 374 pages
...travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the...extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk * Instead of ' wrioged,' it should have been ' wrung.' of your natives to be, the most pernicious race... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAP. VII. The Author's Love of his Country. He makes a Proposal of much Advantage to the King, which... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringe4 and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAP. VII. The Author's Love of his Country. He makes a Proposal of muck Advantage to the King, which... | |
 | 1830 - 1024 pages
...with a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdingnag — 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 446 pages
...travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the...I have with much pains wringed* and extorted from • Inileid of ''wringed' it should Lave been • wrung.1 — S. you, I cannot but conclude the bulk... | |
 | 1826 - 450 pages
...many vices of your country. But by what -I have gathered from your own relation, and the anfwers 1 have with much pains wringed and extorted from you,...cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the moft pernicious гiee of little odious vermin, that nature ever fuffered to crawl upon the furface... | |
 | 1830 - 1046 pages
...with a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdingnag — 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...escaped many vices of your country. Bat by what : H a 3 have gathered from your own relation, and tha answers I have with much pains wringed* and extorted...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the...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... | |
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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. 
