 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.  Writings - Page 2by Thomas De Quincey - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 392 pages
...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,...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. CHAP. VII. The author s love of his country. He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, -which... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pages
...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, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...up by the king of Brobdingnag, in the celebrated declaration, that the bulk of Gulliver's countrymen are the " most pernicious race of little odious vermin...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." The vehicle of the allegory, both in the first and second voyage, is less shocking to the understanding... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1830 - 1034 pages
...these words with a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdingnag — that men are " the most pernicious race of little...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." Somethin» of the same sentiment accompanied us at intervale through this Life of Bentley, and the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 532 pages
...up by the King of Brob^ngnag, in the celebrated declaration, that the bulk of Gulliver's countrymen are the " most pernicious race of little odious vermin,...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." The vehicle of the allegory, both in the First and Second "Voyage, is less shocking to the understanding... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...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...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. 231.— THE INDUSTRY OF THE BRITISH NATION. CHENEVIX. [THE folio wing extract is from a posthumous... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...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...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." CHAPTER VII. The author's love of his country. He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, whicfi... | |
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