 | 1882 - 340 pages
...eight years occupied with a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, and who did not doubt but that in eight years more he should be able to supply...governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable rate, complained however that his stock was low, and entreated his visitor to give him something as an encouragement... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 352 pages
...prevent them from foundering," to " sow land with chaff," and to "extract sunbeams from cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and...let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers." The satire cannot be considered too broad when we consider the folly and credulity which, at the time... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 360 pages
...prevent them from foundering," to " sow land with chaff," and to "extract sunbeams from cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, intlement summers." The satire cannot be considered too broad when we consider the folly and credulity... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...St. 43. He that had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which are fair The bay-trees in our country all are wither'd. And meteors frigh iii raw, inclement summers. í. SviFT-Ou/iiuer's Travels. Pt. III. Oh. V. \'oyaije to Laputa. He is... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...St. 43. He that had been eight years upon a project for extracting xunbeams out of cucumbers, which ; but worm the air in raw, inclement summers. (. SWIFT— Gulliver's Travels. Pt. III. Ch. V. Voyage to Lapula.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Brobdtngnag. He had lieen eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. Part iii. Ch. 5. Voynrje to Laputa. Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out... | |
 | Arthur Latham Perry - 1883 - 636 pages
...been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air, in raw and inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, in eight years more, he should be able to supply... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 pages
...colour. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of \ } cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and...summers. He told me he did not doubt that in eight ; i %C'3rears more he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 460 pages
...s;nne color. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air ' In this and the following chapter Swift indulge! himself in tlm most unrestrained sallies of ridicule... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 458 pages
...samе color. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air i In this л ml the following chapter Swift Indulges liini-'li In the most unrestrained ulliee of ridicule... | |
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. 
