Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World: In Words of One Syllable. With Fifty-four IllustrationsH. Altemus, 1896 - 215 páginas |
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... dangerous , and I am confident would not be imitated by any prince in Europe , on the like occasion . However , in my opinion , it was ex- tremely prudent , as well as generous ; for supposing these people had endeavored to kill me with ...
... dangerous , and I am confident would not be imitated by any prince in Europe , on the like occasion . However , in my opinion , it was ex- tremely prudent , as well as generous ; for supposing these people had endeavored to kill me with ...
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... dangerous things , if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person . said , his majesty should be satisfied ; for I was ready to strip myself , and turn up my pockets before him . This I delivered , part in words and part in signs ...
... dangerous things , if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person . said , his majesty should be satisfied ; for I was ready to strip myself , and turn up my pockets before him . This I delivered , part in words and part in signs ...
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... dangerous engines . He took them out of their cases , and told us that , in his own country , his practice was to shave his beard with one of these , and to cut his meat with the other . There were two pockets which we could not enter ...
... dangerous engines . He took them out of their cases , and told us that , in his own country , his practice was to shave his beard with one of these , and to cut his meat with the other . There were two pockets which we could not enter ...
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... danger from me . I would sometimes lie down , and let five or six of them dance on my hand ; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide - and- seek in my hair . I had now made a good progress in understanding ...
... danger from me . I would sometimes lie down , and let five or six of them dance on my hand ; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide - and- seek in my hair . I had now made a good progress in understanding ...
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... danger is much greater when the ministers themselves are commanded to show their dexterity ; for , by contending to excel themselves and their fellows , they strain so far that there is hardly one of them who has not received a fall ...
... danger is much greater when the ministers themselves are commanded to show their dexterity ; for , by contending to excel themselves and their fellows , they strain so far that there is hardly one of them who has not received a fall ...
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