 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 pages
...government, and society; and he makes the king conclude, from the little stranger's narrative, " that, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the...little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl on the surface of the earth." Now this, we apprehend, which is but a fair specimen of the general conclusions... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 316 pages
...with a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdignag — 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... | |
 | William Watts - 1846 - 132 pages
...SPECULUM. VV, " From what I have gathered from your own relation," said the king. " and the answers lliave, with much pains, wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be ihe most pernicious race of little, odious vermin, that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 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." * Instead of " wringed " it should have been " wrung." — Sheridan. CHAPTER VH. The author's love... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed.and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. 230.— GOOD AND BAD FOBTUNE. PETSABOH [FRANCESCO PETBAKCA is one of the greatest names of modern Europe:... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1856 - 342 pages
...a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdignag —• that men are 6 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1858 - 366 pages
...the mountains are generally Danish. 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1865 - 360 pages
...with a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdignag — 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 698 pages
...district, male and female, come in a body and discharge their excrements upon him from head to foot. 1. I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suller .li to crawl upon the surface of the earth. 3. « Proposition modeste pour empêcher que les... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 368 pages
...the mountains are generally Danish. 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... | |
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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. 
