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" An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would... "
Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World - Página 225
por Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - 352 páginas
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 páginas
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if the...after the manner of their forefathers; such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people. However, many of the most learned and wise...
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The World's Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and ..., Volumen6

1912 - 316 páginas
...particular business they are to discourse on." And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if the...vulgar and illiterate, had not threatened to raise a rebel187 lion unless they might be allowed the liberty to speak with their tongues after the manner...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 páginas
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the c c c g g g c irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people. However, many of the most learned and wise...
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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volumen8

Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 358 páginas
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if the...speak with their tongues, after the manner of their ancestors ; l such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people. However, many...
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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volumen8

Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 páginas
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if the...speak with their tongues, after the manner of their ancestors ; ' such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people. However, many...
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Essays in Honor of Charles F. Hockett

Charles F.: Festschrift Hockett, Frederick Browning Agard - 1983 - 624 páginas
...1953, pp. 203-4 The passage continues: 'And this Invention would certainly have taken place, to the great Ease as well as Health of the Subject, if the...Conjunction with the Vulgar and Illiterate had not threatned to raise a Rebellion, unless they might be allowed the Liberty to speak with their Tongues,...
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Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift - 1992 - 290 páginas
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if the...conjunction with the vulgar and illiterate had not threatned to raise a rebellion, unless they might be allowed the liberty to speak with their tongues,...
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Auge & Ohr: Studien zur Erforschung der Sprache am Menschen 1700-1850

Joachim Gessinger - 1994 - 824 páginas
...particular business they are to discourse on. And this invention would certainly have taken place, to the great ease as well as health of the subject, if the...conjunction with the vulgar and illiterate had not threatned to raise a rebellion, unless they might be allowed the liberty to speak with their tongues,...
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The Playful Eye: An Album of Visual Delight

Julian Rothenstein, Mel Gooding - 2000 - 116 páginas
...Balnibarbi, "in conjunction with the vulgar and illiterate," threatened rebellion if they were not "allowed the liberty to speak with their tongues, after the manner of their ancestors." Though it seems strange that no great poet has been tempted to use the device of the rebus...
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Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe

David Porter - 2001 - 324 páginas
...use has been the staunch resistance of the women, who, together with the "vulgar and illiterate," had "threatened to raise a rebellion, unless they might...allowed the liberty to speak with their tongues." 21 Swift's association of flawed forms of speech with the unruly masses is not surprising given the...
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