The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volumen 4A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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... thefe , degenerate as they are , I ftill improve in fome virtues without any mixture of vice . Do thefe miferable animals prefume to think , that I am fo degenerated as to defend my veracity ? Yahoo as I am , it is well known through ...
... thefe , degenerate as they are , I ftill improve in fome virtues without any mixture of vice . Do thefe miferable animals prefume to think , that I am fo degenerated as to defend my veracity ? Yahoo as I am , it is well known through ...
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... Thefe voyages are intended as a moral political romance ; in which Swift seems to have exerted the strongest efforts of a fine irregular genius . But while his imagination and his wit de- light , the venomous ftrokes of his fatire ...
... Thefe voyages are intended as a moral political romance ; in which Swift seems to have exerted the strongest efforts of a fine irregular genius . But while his imagination and his wit de- light , the venomous ftrokes of his fatire ...
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... thefe wonders , they fhouted for joy , and danced upon my breast , repeating feveral times , as they did at firft , Hekinah degul . They made me a fign that I fhould throw down the two hogfheads , but firft warning the people below to ...
... thefe wonders , they fhouted for joy , and danced upon my breast , repeating feveral times , as they did at firft , Hekinah degul . They made me a fign that I fhould throw down the two hogfheads , but firft warning the people below to ...
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... Thefe people are most excellent mathematicians , and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics by the counte- nance and encouragement of the Emperor , who is a re- nowned patron of learning . This prince hath several ma- chines fixed ...
... Thefe people are most excellent mathematicians , and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics by the counte- nance and encouragement of the Emperor , who is a re- nowned patron of learning . This prince hath several ma- chines fixed ...
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... thefe cords by many pullies faftened on the poles , and thus , in less than three hours , I was raised and flung into the engine , and there tied fast . All this I was told , for , while the whole operation was performing , I lay in a ...
... thefe cords by many pullies faftened on the poles , and thus , in less than three hours , I was raised and flung into the engine , and there tied fast . All this I was told , for , while the whole operation was performing , I lay in a ...
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Página 170 - It is true, upon experiment they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop. However, it is not doubted that this invention may be capable of great improvement. I...
Página 126 - 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.
Página 213 - In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end...
Página 19 - I awaked, by a very ridiculous accident; for, the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep. They climbed up into the engine, and advancing very...
Página 149 - Their heads were all reclined either to the right or the left ; one of their eyes turned inward, and the other directly up to the zenith. Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars, interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
Página 109 - Their skins appeared so coarse and uneven, so variously coloured, when I saw them near, with a mole here and there as broad as a trencher, and hairs hanging from it thicker than packthreads, to say nothing further concerning the rest of their persons.
Página 44 - I had now fastened all the hooks, and taking the knot in my hand, began to pull ; but not a ship would stir, for they were all too fast held by their anchors, so that the boldest part of my enterprise remained. I therefore let go the cord, and leaving the hooks fixed to the ships, I resolutely cut with my knife the cables that fastened...
Página 125 - I told him of an invention discovered between three and four hundred years ago, to make a certain powder, into an heap of which the smallest spark of fire falling, would kindle the whole in a moment, although it were as big as a mountain, and make it all fly up in the air together, with a noise and agitation greater than thunder.
Página 168 - I was received very kindly by the Warden, and went for many days to the Academy. Every room hath in it one or more projectors, and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour.
Página 310 - I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever ; therefore I advise him to consider of it, and settle his affairs in time.