 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...me gently with the other, after an hearty fit of laughing, asking me, whether / was a Whig or Tory. Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff nearly as tall as the mainmast of the ' Royal Sovereign,' he observed how contemptible a thing was... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1860 - 744 pages
...giants is represented by the most unfortunate, or rather the most fortunate of all voyagers, ;.- " turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white start", near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, and observing how contemptible a thing... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...a thousand wonderful absurdities are evolved, at so many stages of the calculation. Turning to the first minister who waited behind him with a white...near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, the King of Brobdingnag observes how contemptible a thing human grandeur is, as represented by such... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 pages
...me gently with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me, whether I was a whig or a tory ? Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, nearly as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed, " how contemptible a thing was... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...me gently with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me whether I was a Whig or a Tory ? Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff near as tall an the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed, " How contemptible a thing was human grandeur,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - 414 pages
...me gently with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me whether I was a Whig or a Tory ? Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff nearly as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1854 - 622 pages
...inini.-t.-r, who waited behind him with a white staff nearly as tall as the mainmast of the Itoynl Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could he mimicked bv such diminutive insects as I; ' And yet,' says he, ' I dare engage these creatures have... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pages
...a thousand wonderful absurdities are evolved, at so many stages of the calculation. Turning to the first minister who waited behind him with a white...as tall as the mainmast of the " Royal Sovereign," the King of Brobdingnag observes how contemptible a thing human grandeur is, as represented by such... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...a thousand wonderful absurdities are evolved, at so many stages of the calculation. Turning to the first minister who waited behind him with a white...as tall as the mainmast of the " Royal Sovereign," the King of Brobdingnag observes how contemptible a thing human grandeur is, as represented by such... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...a thousand wonderful absurdities are evolved, at so many stages of the calculation. Turning to the first minister who waited behind him with a white...as tall as the mainmast of the " Royal Sovereign," the King of Brobdingnag observes how contemptible a thing human grandeur is, as represented by such... | |
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Tory. Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I:... 
