| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 370 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 - 1863 - 360 pages
...the mountains are generally Danish. one moment assented to the King of Brobdingnag — thut 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... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 696 pages
...and female, come in a body and discharge théir excrements upon him from héad to foot. 2. 1 rannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most...pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever sulfer-d to crawl upon thé surface of the earth. 3. • Proposition modeste pour empêchér que les... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 368 pages
...the mountains are generally Dauish, 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... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 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." 153 CHAPTER VII. The author's love of his country — He makes a proposal of much advantage to the... | |
| Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...adds : ' by what I have gathered from your own relation and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk...vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth.' (") In Swift's time two keen and memorable controversies divided the literary world,... | |
| John Booth - 1865 - 400 pages
...adds : ' by what I have gathered from your own relation and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk...vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth.' ("j In Swift's time two keen and memorable controversies divided the literary world,... | |
| Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - 414 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...pains wringed * and extorted from you, I cannot but * Sheridan takes exception to this form of the participle. It is, however, correct, and is to be found... | |
| 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... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 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." NOJSL-. this^w^_a^piehejnd,,jwJhHib_.^ but a fair specimen of Jibe-general... | |
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