 | Thomas More (st.) - 1845 - 358 páginas
...kings protested to me," he observes, " that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some...and they showed with great strength of reason, that their royal throne could not be supported without corruption, because that positive, confident, restive... | |
 | Saint Thomas More - 1845 - 356 páginas
...kings protested to me," he observes, " that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some...and they showed with great strength of reason, that their royal throne could not be supported without corruption, because that positive, confident, restive... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 566 páginas
...Swift, in his political romance, "that in their whole reigns, they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some...into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business." — (GulRver't Travelt, part iii. c. 8.) — ED. done that can deserve it. For what can he more than... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 páginas
...fleet."* Three kings protested to me, " That in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some...into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business. "f I had the curiosity to inquire, in a particular manner, by what method great numbers had procured... | |
 | Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1852 - 348 páginas
...kings protested to me," he observes, " that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some...and they showed with great strength of reason, that their royal throne could not be supported without corruption, because that positive, confident, restive... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 páginas
...fleet." Three kings protested to me, "that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some...would they do it if they were to live again:" and they shewed me with great strength of reason, "that the royal throne could not be supported without corruption,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 páginas
...money. A prince is a practiser of all the vices, unable to employ or love an honest man, persuaded that ' the royal throne could not be supported without...into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business.' 1 At Lilliput the king chooses as his ministers those who dance best upon the tight-rope. At Luggnagg... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 páginas
...persuaded that 'the royal throne 1 Swift's Works, xii. Quliiver^ Travels, Part 2, ch. 6, p. 171. VOL. II. K could not be supported without corruption, because...infused into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business.'1 At Lilliput the king chooses as his ministers those who dance best upon the tight-rope.... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 páginas
...that ' the royal throne 1 Swift's Works, xii. Giilltver'a Travels, Part 2, ch. 6, p. 171. VOL. II. K could not be supported without corruption, because...infused into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business.'1 At Lilliput the king chooses as his ministers those who dance best upon the tight-rope.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 páginas
...fleet." Three kings protested to me, "that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some...they do it if they were to live again :" and they shewed me with great strength of reason, "that the royal throne could not be supported without corruption,... | |
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Three kings protested to me that, in their whole reigns, they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake or treachery of some minister in whom they confided ; neither would they do it if they were to live again ; and they showed, with... 
