 | Jonathan Swift - 1755 - 514 pages
...from bc~ tow ; and one infeft fumijhesyou with a /bare ofpoifonto deftroy another. So that injbort the queftion comes all to this ; whether is the nobler...contemplation of four inches round, by an over-weening pride, feeding and engendering on itf elf, turns all into excrement and venom ; producing nothing at all,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 470 pages
...and one infeft furnifhes you •• with a fhare of poifon to deftroy another. So that, " in fhort, the queftion comes all to this, Whether is the *• nobler being of the two, that, which by a lazy con" templatior1 of four inches round, by an overweening *• pride, which feeding and engendering... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1761 - 468 pages
...fhare of poifon to deftroy another. u So that, in (hort, the queflion comes all to this, Whe" ther is the nobler being of the two, that which, by *'...contemplation of four inches round, by an " overweening pride, feeding and engendering on itfelf, *' turns all into excrement and venom, producing no*' thing at all,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 500 pages
...belew, and one infeElfurnijhesyou wit ha /hare ofpoifon to dejlroy another. So that injhort the quejlion comes all to this ', whether is the nobler being of...contemplation of four inches round, by an over-weening pride, feeding and engendering on itfelf, turns all into excrement and . venom ; producing nothing at all,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 376 pages
...below; and one infect furnifhes " you with a fhare of poifon to deftroy another. *' So that, in fhort, the queftion comes all to this, " Whether is the nobler...contemplation of four inches " round, by an overweening pride, feeding and " engendering on itfelf, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 474 pages
...one infect, furnimes you with a (hare of poifon, to deftroy another. So that, in fhort, the queflion comes all to this ; * whether is the nobler being...contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride, feeding and engendering on itfelf, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all, but... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - 470 pages
...infect fur" nifhes you with a fhare of poifon to deftroy " another. So that, in fhort, the qneition comes " all to this, Whether is the nobler being of...contemplation of " four inches round, by an overweening pride, " feeding and ingendering on itfelf, turns all into " excrement and venom, producing nothing at " all,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1798 - 278 pages
...below ; and one infecTi furnifhes you with ' a fhare of poifon to deftroy another. So that, in fhort, '.the queftion comes all to this, Whether is the nobler...overweening pride, which, ' feeding and engendering on itlelf, turns all into excre' ment and venom, producing nothing at all, but fly' bane and a cobweb... | |
 | George Hardinge - 1800 - 114 pages
...below ; and one infedt furniihcs you with a Jlore of poifon to deftroy another. So that in ftiort, the queftion comes all to this ; whether is the nobler...overweening pride which, feeding and engendering on itfelf, turns, all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all but "fly-bane and a eobweb :... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...one insect, furnishes you with a share of poison, to destroy another. So that, in short, the question comes all to this ; whether is the nobler being of...contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride, feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at all, but... | |
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So that, in short, the question comes all to this ; whether is the nobler being of the two, that which, by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride... 
