 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 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. "... But great allowances should be given to a king who lives wholly secluded from the rest of the... | |
 | Popular educator - 1884 - 904 pages
...But, by what I have gathered from yonr own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringod and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk...little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl npon the surface of the earth." This looks like good impartial hatred ; yet one cannot help thinking... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1887 - 296 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... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1926 - 916 pages
..."Gulliver's Travels" he showed him up not only as he was, but as he might have been and ought to be. "I cannot but conclude the Bulk of your Natives to...suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth." With Hardy, the average man or woman is morally superior to God; speaking of the second commandment,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1889 - 460 pages
...have attained, earned from the calm Brobdingnagian the conclusion that the bulk of his countrymen must be " the most pernicious race of little odious vermin...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." Swift took Gulliver to Laputa that he might laugh at the vain pride of learning ; and to the Houyhnhnms... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1889 - 424 pages
...be seen. Still more clearly noticeable is the supreme contempt that SWIFT felt for his own race, " the most pernicious race of little odious vermin,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." 2« SCOTT mentions the fact that in the Voyage to Lilliput the various pursuits, strifes, and ambitions... | |
 | W. C. TAYLOR - 1890 - 890 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." * loRtead of "wringed," it should have been " wrung- " . !j6 GULLIVEFS TRAVELS CHAPTER VU. THE AUTHOR'S... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 464 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." ing hills : from the Danish taaren, a trickling. The original word ia taar, Danish for a tear. Consequentlythe... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 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." Is there, then, no hope for his fellow-men ? Absolutely none, answers Captain Gulliver. In the academy... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 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...pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature I ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." y^Is there, then, no hope for his fellow-men... | |
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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. 
