 | Popular educator - 1880 - 852 Seiten
...answers I have with much pains wringcd and extorted from yon, I cannot but conclude the bulk of yonr natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious...nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the oortlt." This looks like good impartial hatred ; yet one cannot help thinking that, had Bolingbroke... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 Seiten
...man — of his instincts, of his ambitions, of his hopes. Nay, they are better, for our species is 'the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl on the face of the earth.' This book is the expression of Swift — the assembly of all his talent... | |
 | English dictation - 1881 - 156 Seiten
...towards the procurement of any one station among you ; much less that men are ennobled on account of virtue ; that priests are advanced for their piety...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CXXXIX. Nothing so soon awakens the malevolent passions as the facility of gratification. The courts... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 348 Seiten
...for their integrity ; senators for the love of their country ; or counsellors for their wisdom. * * * I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth ! In the voyage to Laputa the satire is directed against the vanity of human wisdom, and the folly... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1882 - 76 Seiten
...gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, 1 cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAPTER VII. THE AUTHOR'S LOVE OP HIS COUNTRY. HE MAKES A PROPOSAL OP MUCH ADVANTAGE TO THE KING, WHICH... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 Seiten
...creatures so contemptible as human beings, and are not blind to their own faults, reflected in these, "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." But human nature, in Gulliver, is content " to wink at its own littleness," and to forget the gulf... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 Seiten
...creatures so contemptible as human beings, and are not blind to their own faults, reflected in these, "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." But human nature, in Gulliver, is content " to wink at its own littleness," and to forget the gulf... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 236 Seiten
...after listening to Gulliver's version of modern history, that " the bulk of your natives appear to me to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth." In Lilliput and Brobdingnag, however, the satire scarcely goes beyond pardonable... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 Seiten
...man — of his instincts, of his ambitions, of his hopes. Nay, they are better, for our species ' is the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl on the face of the earth.' This book is the expression of Swift, — the assembly of all his talent... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 Seiten
...from your own relation, and the answers VOL. x1. • L I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAPTER VI. THE AUTHOR'S LOVE OF HIS COUNTRY. HE MAKES A PROPOSAL OF MUCH ADVANTAGE TO THE KING, WHICH... | |
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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 surface of the earth. 
