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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... reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas ; let it suffice to inform him , that , in our passage from thence to the East Indies , we were driven by a violent storm to the north - west of Van Diemen's Land . By an ...
... reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas ; let it suffice to inform him , that , in our passage from thence to the East Indies , we were driven by a violent storm to the north - west of Van Diemen's Land . By an ...
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... reader may believe , in great uneasiness . At length , struggling to get loose , I had the fortune to break the strings and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left_arm to the ground ; for , by lifting it up to my face , I dis- covered ...
... reader may believe , in great uneasiness . At length , struggling to get loose , I had the fortune to break the strings and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left_arm to the ground ; for , by lifting it up to my face , I dis- covered ...
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... reader may well imagine without my repeating ; although indeed I could not very perfectly understand them . I then gave up my silver and copper money , my purse with nine large pieces of gold and some smaller ones ; my knife and razor ...
... reader may well imagine without my repeating ; although indeed I could not very perfectly understand them . I then gave up my silver and copper money , my purse with nine large pieces of gold and some smaller ones ; my knife and razor ...
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... reader's patience , to enlarge a little . This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favor at court . They are trained in this art from their youth , and are not always of noble ...
... reader's patience , to enlarge a little . This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favor at court . They are trained in this art from their youth , and are not always of noble ...
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... reader may perhaps be curious to have some idea of the style and man- ner of expression peculiar to that people , as well as to know the articles upon which I recovered my lib- erty , I have made a translation of the whole instru- ment ...
... reader may perhaps be curious to have some idea of the style and man- ner of expression peculiar to that people , as well as to know the articles upon which I recovered my lib- erty , I have made a translation of the whole instru- ment ...
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