The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 2C. Bathurst, C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer., 1755 |
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... reason to be- lieve I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me , if they were all of the fame fize with him , that I faw . But fortune difpofed otherways of me . When the people obferved I was quiet , they ...
... reason to be- lieve I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me , if they were all of the fame fize with him , that I faw . But fortune difpofed otherways of me . When the people obferved I was quiet , they ...
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... reason , till I had a whisper from a certain person , that Flim- nap and Bolgolam had represented my in- tercourse with thofe ambaffadors as a mark of difaffection , from which I am fure my heart was wholly free . And this was the first ...
... reason , till I had a whisper from a certain person , that Flim- nap and Bolgolam had represented my in- tercourse with thofe ambaffadors as a mark of difaffection , from which I am fure my heart was wholly free . And this was the first ...
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... reason thus , that whoever makes ill returns to his benefac- tor , must needs be a common enemy to the rest of mankind , from whom he hath received no obligation , and therefore fuch a man is not fit to live . Their notions relating to ...
... reason thus , that whoever makes ill returns to his benefac- tor , must needs be a common enemy to the rest of mankind , from whom he hath received no obligation , and therefore fuch a man is not fit to live . Their notions relating to ...
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... reasons to believe , that this vifit from his majesty gave Flimnap an oppor- tunity of doing me ill offices to his master . That minister had always been my fecret enemy , though he outwardly careffed me more than was ufual to the ...
... reasons to believe , that this vifit from his majesty gave Flimnap an oppor- tunity of doing me ill offices to his master . That minister had always been my fecret enemy , though he outwardly careffed me more than was ufual to the ...
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... reason , he defired I would hear him with patience in a matter , that highly concer- ned my honour and my life . His fpeech was to the following effect , for I took notes of it as foon as he left me . You are to know , faid he , that ...
... reason , he defired I would hear him with patience in a matter , that highly concer- ned my honour and my life . His fpeech was to the following effect , for I took notes of it as foon as he left me . You are to know , faid he , that ...
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Page 215 - vices of your country. But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the anfwers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the molt pernicious race of little
Page ix - .body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards, the fun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confufed noife about me; but^ in the pofture I lay, could fee nothing except the fky. In a little time I felt fomething alive moving on my left
Page 369 - in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be defcribed; and among half a dozen I foon diftinguifhed, which was the eldeft, although there was not above a century or two between them. The reader will eafily believe, that from what I had heard and feen, my keen
Page xiv - hogiheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tafted like a fmall wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious. They brought me a fecond hogihead,
Page 74 - is fitted to fome ftation or other, and that providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a myftery to be comprehended only by a few perfons of fublime genius, of which there feldom are three born in an age: but they fuppofe truth, juftice, temperance, and the like, to be in every
Page xv - to be the largeft in the whole kingdom¿, which, having been polluted fome years before by an unnatural murder, was according to the zeal of thofe people looked upon as prophane, and therefore had been applied to common ufe, and all the ornaments and furniture carried away. In this edifice it was determined I
Page 316 - would lay down their loads, open their facks, and hold con verfation for an hour together; then put up their implements, help each other to refume their burthens, and take their leave. But for Ihort converfations a man may carry implements in his pockets and
Page 26 - globes, or balls, of a moft ponderous metal, about the bignefs of our heads, and required a ftrong hand to lift them: the other cell contained a heap of certain black grains, but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of our hands. This is an
Page 181 - barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to ftoop, and knocked me down flat on my face ; but I received no other hurt, and the dwarf was pardoned at my defire, becaufe I had given the provocation. Another day Glumdalclitcb left me on a
Page 21 - behaviour, the good opinion of himfelf and his fubjects. He defired I would not take it ill, if he gave orders to certain proper officers to fearch me ; for probably I might carry about me feveral weapons, which muft needs be dangerous things, if they anfwered the bulk of fo prodigious a perfon. I faid, his majefty