 I have been sometimes thinking, if a man had the art of the second sight for seeing lies, as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits, how admirably he might entertain himself in this town, by observing the different shapes, sizes, and colours of those...  The Works - Page 21by Jonathan Swift - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...thinking, if a man had the art of the second sight for seeing lies, as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits, how admirably he might entertain himself...summer,; or those legions hovering every afternoon in Exchangealley, enough to darken the air ; or over a club of discontented grandees, and thence sent... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 490 pages
...thinking, if a man had the art of the second sight for seeing lies, as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits, how admirably he might entertain himself...summer; or those legions hovering every afternoon in Exchangealley, enough to darken the air ; or over a club of discontented grandees, and thence sent... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 360 pages
...thinking, if a man had the art of the second sight for seeing lies, as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits, how admirably he might entertain himself...sizes, and colours of those swarms of lies, which buz/, about the heads of some people, like flies about a horse's ears in summer; or those legions hovering... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 462 pages
...thinking, if a man had the art of the second sight for seeing lies, as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits, how admirably he might entertain himself...summer ; or those legions hovering every afternoon in Exchangealley, enough to darken the air ; or over a club of discontented grandees, and thence sent... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...DCCCCXLIII. If a man had the art of second-sight for seeing Lies, as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits, how admirably he might entertain himself...lies, which buzz about the heads of some people, like flias about a horse's ears in summer; or those legions hovering every afternoon in Exchange-alley,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...DCCCCXLIII. If a man had the art of second-sight for seeing Lies, as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits, how admirably he might entertain himself...swarms of lies, which buzz about the heads of some P eo ' pie, like flies about a horse's ears in summer; or those legions hovering every afternoon in... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...LYING. — If a man had the art of second-sight for seeing lies, as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits, how admirably he might entertain himself...town by observing the different shapes, sizes, and colors of those swarms of lies, which buzz about the heads of some people, like flies about a Lorse'fi... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...the art of second-sight for seeing Lies, as they have in Scotland fo Meing spirits, how ad mirably he might entertain himself in this town by observing...sizes, and colours of those swarms of lies, which buzz nbo.it, the heads of some people, like flies about a horse's ears in summer ; or those legions hovering... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 528 pages
...thinking, if a man had the art of the second sight for seeing lies, as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits, how admirably he might entertain himself...about a horse's ears in summer ; or those legions hoyering every afternoon in Exchange-alley, enough to darken the air ; or over a club of discontented... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 pages
...thinking, if a man had the art of the second sight for seeing lies, as they have in Scotland for seeing spirits, how admirably he might entertain himself...summer ; or those legions hovering every afternoon in Exchange-alley, enough to darken the air ; or over a club of discontented grandees, and thence sent... | |
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