Gulliver's travels into several remote regions of the worldCassell & Company, 1870 - 352 pagina's |
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... OBSERVED A HUGE CREATURE WALKING AFTER THEM IN THE SEA " WHEREUPON THE HUGE CREATURE TROD SHORT " " " 89 " I ROSE IN A FRIGHT , AND DREW OUT MY HANGER TO DEFEND MYSELF " . “ I CALLED HER MY GLUMDALCLITCH , OR LITTLE NURSE ” 93 100 · 104 ...
... OBSERVED A HUGE CREATURE WALKING AFTER THEM IN THE SEA " WHEREUPON THE HUGE CREATURE TROD SHORT " " " 89 " I ROSE IN A FRIGHT , AND DREW OUT MY HANGER TO DEFEND MYSELF " . “ I CALLED HER MY GLUMDALCLITCH , OR LITTLE NURSE ” 93 100 · 104 ...
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... OBSERVED THE NOISE AND FLUTTER OF WINGS " " SOMEBODY CALLING THROUGH THE HOLE WITH A LOUD VOICE , IN THE ENGLISH ... OBSERVE THE SEVERAL METHODS USED BY FARMERS IN MANAGING THEIR LANDS " 213 " HE CALLED ALOUD TO ME NOT TO DISTURB HIS ...
... OBSERVED THE NOISE AND FLUTTER OF WINGS " " SOMEBODY CALLING THROUGH THE HOLE WITH A LOUD VOICE , IN THE ENGLISH ... OBSERVE THE SEVERAL METHODS USED BY FARMERS IN MANAGING THEIR LANDS " 213 " HE CALLED ALOUD TO ME NOT TO DISTURB HIS ...
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... observation , we found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south . Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food ; the rest were in a very weak condition . On the 5th of November , which was the beginning ...
... observation , we found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south . Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food ; the rest were in a very weak condition . On the 5th of November , which was the beginning ...
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... observed I was quiet , they discharged no more arrows ; but , by the noise I heard , I knew their numbers increased ; and about four yards from me , over against my right ear , I heard a knocking for above an hour , like that of people.
... observed I was quiet , they discharged no more arrows ; but , by the noise I heard , I knew their numbers increased ; and about four yards from me , over against my right ear , I heard a knocking for above an hour , like that of people.
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... observed there was the flesh of several animals , but I 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 . I ...
... observed there was the flesh of several animals , but I 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 . I ...
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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.