 | 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, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 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,...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... | |
 | England - 1830 - 1024 pages
...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 odious vermin...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." Something of the same sentiment accompanied us at intervals through this Life of Bentley, and the records... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1830 - 1034 pages
...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 odious vermin...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 316 pages
...words with a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdignag — that men are ' the most pernicious race of little odious vermin...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' Something of the same sentiment accompanied us at intervals through this Life of Bentley, and the records... | |
 | William Watts - England - 1846 - 132 pages
...much pains, wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be ihe most pernicious race of little, odious vermin, that...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." — Gulliver's Travels. " My horror and astonishment are not to be described, when I observed in this... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1856 - 342 pages
...a pang of misanthropy, and for one moment assented to the king of Brobdignag —• that men are 6 the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' Something of the same sentiment accompanied us at intervals through this Life of Bentley, and the records... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 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." * Instead of " wringed " it should have been " wrung." — Sheridan. CHAPTER VH. The author's love... | |
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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. 
