 | Jonathan Swift - 1871 - 406 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...He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, which is rejected — The king's great . ignorance in politics — The learning of that country very... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...aggravated and multiplied these vices, and concluding with the king of Brobdignag that our species is 'the most pernicious race of little odious vermin...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' * Five years after this treatise on man, he wrote in favour of unhappy Ireland a pamphlet which is... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 pages
...aggravated and multiplied these vices, and concluding with the king of Brobdignag that our species is 'the most pernicious race of little odious vermin...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' * Five years after this treatise on man, he wrote in favour of unhappy Ireland a pamphlet which is... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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. — Gulliver's Travels. [DR. JOHN ARBUTHNOT. 1675—1735.] AN EPITAPH ON A SCOUNDREL. " HERE continueth... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 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...little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl up- o the surface of the earth." wriEfed " it thould h»ye bwo " wrung."— ShtrUam. CHAPTER Vn. Fhe... | |
 | 1873 - 1084 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 VII. THE AUTHOR'S LOVE... | |
 | Library - 1873 - 1084 pages
...travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by he people observed I was quiet, they discharged no...of people at work ; when, turning my head that way 618 619 CHAPTER VII. THE AUTHOR'S LOVE OF HIS COUNTRY. — HE MAKES A PROPOSAL OF MUCH ADVANTAGE TO... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 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...cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the moat pernicious race of littlo odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of... | |
 | 1876 - 624 pages
...step by step, till we actually admire his majesty of Brobdingnag when he passes this verdict on us : 'I cannot but conclude the bulk ' of your natives...vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the ' earth.' When we have seen ourselves in the Yahoos (who still want the crowning malady... | |
 | 1876 - 848 pages
...step by step, till we actually admire his Majesty of Brobdingnag when he passes this verdict on us : " I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth." When we have seen ourselves in the Yahoos (who still want the crowning malady of... | |
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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. 
