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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels. Directions to servants - Page 231
by Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

1896 - 1224 pages
...II. St. 43. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which ind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit ; g. Merchant of Venice. Act II /. Swirr— Gulliver's Travel*. Pt. III. Ch. V. Voyage to Laputa. 'Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries;...
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Old and New London: a Narrative of Its History, Its People and Its Places

George Walter Thornbury - 1873 - 610 pages
...same colour. 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 raw, inclement summeis. He told me he did not doubt that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor's...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 22

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 580 pages
...the same color. He had been eight years upon a project of extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and...years more he should be able to supply the Governor's garden with sunshine at a reasonable rate ; but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated...
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History of English Literature

Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 516 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials, hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable rate." In this voyage the Struldbrugs are described. They are a race of men who, after the loss of every faculty...
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History of English Literature

Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 512 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials, hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...in eight years more he should be able to supply the governors gardens with sunshine at a reasonable rate." In this voyage the Struldbrugs are described....
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...been eight years ujx>na project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the...raw inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt in eight years more that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into ott co. in eight years more that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

1903 - 1186 pages
...Smallendians. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cncumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. Gullieer's Traeels. Part Hi. Chap. c. Vogage to Laputa, It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody...
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The Heath Readers: Primer, [First-sixth reader]

1903 - 360 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...raw, inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt in eight years more that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable...
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Heath Readers: Primer [-sixth] Reader, Book 6

D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...raw, inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt in eight years more that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable...
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