Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the WorldCassell, Petter & Galpin, 1834 - 352 páginas |
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... wonder . No rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity . But when distinctions came to be made , the part which gave least pleasure was that which describes the Flying Island , and that ...
... wonder . No rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity . But when distinctions came to be made , the part which gave least pleasure was that which describes the Flying Island , and that ...
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... wonder if it had im- posed ( as I have been told it has ) upon some per- sons of no contemptible understanding . And some degree of credit may , perhaps , for the same rea- son , be due to the giants . When Swift grounds his narrative ...
... wonder if it had im- posed ( as I have been told it has ) upon some per- sons of no contemptible understanding . And some degree of credit may , perhaps , for the same rea- son , be due to the giants . When Swift grounds his narrative ...
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... wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite . I then made another sign , that I wanted drink . They found by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me ; and being a most ingenious people , they slung up , with great dex ...
... wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite . I then made another sign , that I wanted drink . They found by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me ; and being a most ingenious people , they slung up , with great dex ...
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... wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals , who durst venture to mount and walk upon my body , while one of my hands was at liberty , without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creature as I must appear to them ...
... wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals , who durst venture to mount and walk upon my body , while one of my hands was at liberty , without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creature as I must appear to them ...
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... wonder , for the physicians , by the emperor's order , had mingled a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine . It seems , that upon the first moment I was dis- covered sleeping on the ground , after my landing , the emperor had early ...
... wonder , for the physicians , by the emperor's order , had mingled a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine . It seems , that upon the first moment I was dis- covered sleeping on the ground , after my landing , the emperor had early ...
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Página 35 - He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic. He...
Página 206 - I made him a small present, for my lord had furnished me with money on purpose, because he knew their practice of begging from all who go to see them.
Página 157 - And he gave it for his opinion, " that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground, where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than, the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 243 - they commonly acted like mortals till about thirty years old; after which, by degrees, they grew melancholy and dejected, increasing in both till they came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession: for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore...
Página 44 - Disposition. The Natives came by Degrees to be less apprehensive of any Danger from me. I would sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my Hand.
Página 154 - 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.
Página 28 - I confess I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground. But the remembrance of what I had felt, which probably might not be the worst they could do, and the promise of honour I made them, for so I interpreted my submissive behaviour, soon drove out these imaginations.
Página 46 - The Emperor lays on the table three fine silken threads of six inches long. One is blue, the other red, and the third green.
Página 70 - In relating these and the following laws, I would only be understood to mean the original institutions, and not the most scandalous corruptions, into which these people are fallen by the degenerate nature of man.
Página 211 - Six hours a day the young students were employed in this labour ; and the professor shewed me several volumes in large folio, already collected, of broken sentences, which he intended to piece together, and out of those rich materials to give the world a complete body of all arts and sciences...