 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...counsellors, for their wisdom. As for yourself, continued the king, who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you...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 - 1812 - 374 pages
...for their wisdom. As for yourself," continued the king, " who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you...extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk * Instead of ' wrioged,' it should have been ' wrung.' of your natives to be, the most pernicious race... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...for their wisdom. As for yourself," continued the king, " who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you...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 - 1823 - 446 pages
...for their wisdom. As for yourself,' continued the king, ' who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you...I have with much pains wringed* and extorted from • Inileid of ''wringed' it should Lave been • wrung.1 — S. you, I cannot but conclude the bulk... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...counsellors, for their wisdom. As for yourself, continued the king, who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you...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 - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...government, and society; and he makes the king conclude, from the little stranger's narrative, " that, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and...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
...travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But hy what I have gathered from your own relation, and the...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 pages
...for their wisdom. As for yourself," continued the king, " who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." * Instead of " wringed " it should have been " wrung." — Sheridan. CHAPTER VH. The author's love... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 pages
...for their wisdom. As for yourself," continued the king, " who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." 153 CHAPTER VII. The author's love of his country — He makes a proposal of much advantage to the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - Castaways - 1865 - 414 pages
...for their wisdom. " As for yourself," continued the king, "who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you...pains wringed * and extorted from you, I cannot but * Sheridan takes exception to this form of the participle. It is, however, correct, and is to be found... | |
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As for yourself (continued the king) who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers... 
