 | Popular educator - 1880 - 852 pages
...answers I have with much pains wringcd and extorted from yon, I cannot but conclude the bulk of yonr natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious...nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the oortlt." This looks like good impartial hatred ; yet one cannot help thinking that, had Bolingbroke... | |
 | English dictation - 1881 - 156 pages
...But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CXXXIX. Nothing so soon awakens the malevolent passions as the facility of gratification. The courts... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 348 pages
...for their integrity ; senators for the love of their country ; or counsellors for their wisdom. * * * I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth ! In the voyage to Laputa the satire is directed against the vanity of human wisdom, and the folly... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1882 - 76 pages
...travelling, I am well disposed to hepe you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the...have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, 1 cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 pages
...creatures so contemptible as human beings, and are not blind to their own faults, reflected in these, "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." But human nature, in Gulliver, is content " to wink at its own littleness," and to forget the gulf... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 pages
...creatures so contemptible as human beings, and are not blind to their own faults, reflected in these, "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." But human nature, in Gulliver, is content " to wink at its own littleness," and to forget the gulf... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 466 pages
...vices of your country. But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers VOL. XI. L I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAPTER Vlf, THE AUTHOR'S LOVE OF HIS COUNTRY. HE MAKES A PROPOSAL OF MUCH ADVANTAGE TO THE KING, WHICH IS... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 128 pages
...country. But 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...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAPTER THE LAST. THE KING AND QUEEN MAKE A PROGRESS TO THE FRONTIERS. THE AUTHOR ATTENDS THEM. THE MANNER... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 pages
...the King of Brobdingnag, 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 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." . . . But great allowances should be given to a king who lives wholly secluded from the rest of 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. 
