Gulliver's travels into several remote regions of the worldCassell & Company, 1870 - 352 pagina's |
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... NEVER HAVE ENOUGH OF IT TO SPEND ' 289 292 297 309 " A REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL OF THE WHOLE NATION " . • 317 " I HAD WORKED TWO CHAIRS WITH MY KNIFE , THE SORREL NAG HELPING ME " I FELL TO IMITATE THEIR GAIT AND GESTURE " " " 328 332 ...
... NEVER HAVE ENOUGH OF IT TO SPEND ' 289 292 297 309 " A REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL OF THE WHOLE NATION " . • 317 " I HAD WORKED TWO CHAIRS WITH MY KNIFE , THE SORREL NAG HELPING ME " I FELL TO IMITATE THEIR GAIT AND GESTURE " " " 328 332 ...
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... never attacked . The evil example of his private life , his utter contempt of decorum , the pro- verbial grossness of his conversation , and the periodical debaucheries of Houghton , which were the talk of the whole country , all passed ...
... never attacked . The evil example of his private life , his utter contempt of decorum , the pro- verbial grossness of his conversation , and the periodical debaucheries of Houghton , which were the talk of the whole country , all passed ...
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... with a string to my head while I was rowing , and had stuck on all the time I was swimming , fell off after I came to land ; the string , as I conjecture , breaking by some accident , which I never observed ,. 35 A Voyage to Lilliput .
... with a string to my head while I was rowing , and had stuck on all the time I was swimming , fell off after I came to land ; the string , as I conjecture , breaking by some accident , which I never observed ,. 35 A Voyage to Lilliput .
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Jonathan Swift John Francis Waller. breaking by some accident , which I never observed , but thought my hat had been lost at sea . I entreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be brought to me as soon as possible , describing ...
Jonathan Swift John Francis Waller. breaking by some accident , which I never observed , but thought my hat had been lost at sea . I entreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be brought to me as soon as possible , describing ...
Pagina 51
... never forgive me . He mentioned it in a very artful manner at council , where I was told that some of the wisest appeared , at least by their silence , to be of my opinion ; but others , who were my enemies , could not forbear some ...
... never forgive me . He mentioned it in a very artful manner at council , where I was told that some of the wisest appeared , at least by their silence , to be of my opinion ; but others , who were my enemies , could not forbear some ...
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Populaire passages
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.