 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...invisible ; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance....and a young girl threading an invisible needle with invisible silk. Their tallest trees are about seven feet high : I mean some of those in the great royal... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 524 pages
...invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance....are near, I have been much pleased with observing : 7-2 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS : PART i. a cook pulling a lark, which was not so large as a common fly: and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...invisible ; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view : they see with great exactness, but at no great distance....and a young girl threading an invisible needle with invisible silk. Their tallest trees are about seven feet high : I mean some of those in the great royal... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 486 pages
...invisible ; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view : they see with great exactness, but at no great distance....and a young girl threading an invisible needle with invisible silk. Their tallest trees are about seven feet high : I mean some of those in the great royal... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 494 pages
...invisible ; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view : they see with great exactness, but at no great distance. And, to shew the sharpness of their sight towards objects that are near, I have been much pleased with observing... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1841 - 960 pages
...invisible ; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view : they see with great exactness, but at no great distance....with observing a cook pulling a lark, which was not MI large as a common Иу ; and a young girl thrcadi»: an invisible needle with invisible silk. Their... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 pages
...invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view; they see with great exactness, but at no great distance....and a young girl threading an invisible needle with invisible silk. Their tallest trees are about seven feet high; I mean some of those in the great royal... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 pages
...the purposes of his satire it was necessary to identify the Lilliputian climate with that of England. distance. And to show the sharpness of their sight...objects that are near, I have been much pleased with a cook pulling a lark, which was not so large as a common fly; and a young girl threading an invisible... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1859 - 152 pages
...invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view; they see with great exactness, but at no great distance. And, to show the sharpness of thevt as objects that are near, I have been rcvucta observing a cook pulling a lark, which was not... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 pages
...invisible ; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view : they see with great exactness, but at no great distance....with observing a cook pulling a lark which was not as large as the common fly; and a young girl threading an in visible needle with invisible silk. Their... | |
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They see with great exactness, but at no great distance. And to show the sharpness of their sight towards objects that are near, I have been much pleased with observing a cook pulling a lark, which was not so large as a common fly; and a young girl threading... 
