| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pages
...much pains wringed and *' extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk * "of " of your natives to be the most pernicious race of " little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to " crawl on the surface of the earth." Is it not strange, that so bold a satire on human nature, in its actual... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 446 pages
...''wringed' it should Lave been • wrung.1 — S. you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to erawl upon the surface of the earth CHAPTER IV. The Author's love of his country. lie makes a proposal... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1834 - 536 pages
...and extorted from you, 1 cannot but conclude the bulk of vour natives to be the most pernicious nice of little, odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the fac¿ of th¿ earth." The remarks upon the system are true, but the inference as to the effect is erroneous.... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...have with much pains wringed* and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever sufiered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' CHAPTER VII. The Author's love of his country. He... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl on the surface of the earth." Now this, we apprehend, which is but a fair specimen of the general conclusions... | |
| Hercules Robinson - Madeira (Madeira Islands) - 1858 - 278 pages
...doth appear by what you have said and by what I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, that the bulk of your natives must be the most pernicious...vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth." V The summing up I am afraid must be that the fears of the brave and follies of... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 712 pages
...their excrements upon him from head to foot. •2. I rannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever sulfercd to crawl upon th« surface of the earth. les nies, les routes et les portes des cahanes couvertes... | |
| John Booth - Epigrams - 1865 - 400 pages
...have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth.' ("j In Swift's time two keen and memorable controversies divided the literary world,... | |
| Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth.' (") In Swift's time two keen and memorable controversies divided the literary world,... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1866 - 484 pages
...have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl on the surface of the earth." NOJSL-. this^w^_a^piehejnd,,jwJhHib_.^ but a fair specimen of Jibe-general... | |
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