Gulliver's travels into several remote regions of the worldCassell & Company, 1870 - 352 pagina's |
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... human actions , " Dr. Hawkesworth justly observes , " are ascribed to pigmies and giants , there are few that do not excite either contempt , disgust , or horror ; to ascribe them , therefore , to such beings was , perhaps , the most ...
... human actions , " Dr. Hawkesworth justly observes , " are ascribed to pigmies and giants , there are few that do not excite either contempt , disgust , or horror ; to ascribe them , therefore , to such beings was , perhaps , the most ...
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... human creature not six inches high , * with a bow and arrow in his hands , and a quiver at his back . In the meantime , I felt at least forty more of the same kind ( as I conjectured ) following the first . I was in the utmost ...
... human creature not six inches high , * with a bow and arrow in his hands , and a quiver at his back . In the meantime , I felt at least forty more of the same kind ( as I conjectured ) following the first . I was in the utmost ...
Pagina 13
... human comprehension ; for we learn from Sheridan that , on one occasion , Swift solved a very difficult problem in a very short time . The description of the process by which Gulliver is raised is not only amusing , but very ingenious ...
... human comprehension ; for we learn from Sheridan that , on one occasion , Swift solved a very difficult problem in a very short time . The description of the process by which Gulliver is raised is not only amusing , but very ingenious ...
Pagina 43
... human creatures as large as yourself , our philosophers are in much doubt , and would rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon , or one of the stars ; because it is certain that a hundred mortals of your bulk would in a short ...
... human creatures as large as yourself , our philosophers are in much doubt , and would rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon , or one of the stars ; because it is certain that a hundred mortals of your bulk would in a short ...
Pagina 56
... human under- standing is fitted to some station or other ; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius , of which there are seldom ...
... human under- standing is fitted to some station or other ; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius , of which there are seldom ...
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Pagina 156 - 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.
Pagina 215 - An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on.
Pagina 294 - It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong...
Pagina 6 - ... my mouth, laden with baskets full of meat, which had been provided and sent thither by the King's orders, upon the first intelligence he received of me. I observed there was the flesh of several animals, but could not distinguish them by the taste. There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark.
Pagina 304 - As these noble Houyhnhnms are endowed by nature with a general disposition to all virtues, and have no conceptions or ideas of what is evil in a rational creature ; so their grand maxim is, to cultivate reason, and to be wholly governed by it.
Pagina 22 - He put this engine to our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill. And we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships ; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion...
Pagina 193 - If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometrical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat.
Pagina 3 - I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir; for as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground ; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs.
Pagina 26 - I took all possible methods to cultivate this favourable 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.
Pagina 291 - Yahoos, might easily believe it possible for so vile an animal to be capable of every action I had named, if their strength and cunning equalled their malice. But as my discourse had increased his abhorrence of the whole species, so he found it gave him a disturbance in his mind, to. which he was wholly a stranger before.