He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century, protesting •' it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice,... A History of English Prose Fiction - Page 139by Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pages
...that wise and virtuous monarch on the occasion : " He was perfectly astonished with the his" torical account I gave him of our affairs during the " last century, protesting it was only a heap of con" spiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, " banishments, the very worst effects... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 524 pages
...force them, by the losses they received *, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others." He was perfectly astonished with the historical account...produce." His majesty, in another audience, was at the paing to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made, with the answers... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 500 pages
...of Brobdingnag, he thus relates the sentiments of that wise and virtuous monarch on the occasion : " He was perfectly astonished with the historical account...very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, periidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition eoukl produce. His... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 374 pages
...practise that infamous dexterity upon others." He was perfectly astonished, with the historical ao count I gave him of our affairs, during the last century...rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, * Receiving a lota, is cei tainly not a good expression ; it should be? ' Ifee lottea the/ wrtainecU'... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 462 pages
...astonished (and who would not, if it were the first time he had heard it?) at the historical account I gaye him of our affairs during the last century : protesting it was only an heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres ; the very worst effects that avarice, faction,... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others." He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last * This doctrine is scarcely reconcileable to the much more philosophical maxim of toleration, recommended... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others." He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last * This doctrine is scarcely reconcileable to the much morephilotophical maxim of toleration, recommended... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 446 pages
...force them, by the losses they received,* to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others. He was perfectly astonished with the historical account...avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, ran?, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, anil ambition, could produce. His majesty, in another audience,... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1827 - 548 pages
...Christian Europeans, like so many pikes and sharks, prey upon every thing that we can swallow.' it ?) at the historical account I gave him of our affairs during...heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres ; the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...practise that infamous dexterity upon others.' He was perfectly astonished with the historic;;! account 1 gave him of our affairs during the last century ;...heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutionsbanishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty,... | |
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