| Jonathan Swift - 1903 - 440 páginas
...minister in whom they confided : neither would they do it, if they were to live again ; and they shewed with great strength of reason, that the royal throne...confident, restive temper which virtue infused into man, was a perpetual clog to public business. I had the curiosity to inquire, in a particular manner,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1919 - 740 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 minister...positive, confident, restive temper, which virtue inf used into man, was a perpetual clog to public business. I had the curiosity to enquire in a particular... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 358 páginas
...fleet.1 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...confident, restive temper, which virtue infused into man, was a perpetual clog to public business. I had the curiosity to enquire in a particular manner,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 páginas
...fleet.1 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...confident, restive temper, which virtue infused into man, was a perpetual clog to public business. I had the curiosity to enquire in a particular manner,... | |
| Henry Chester Tracy - 1928 - 342 páginas
...VIII.) 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...do it if they were to live again:" and they showed me with great strength of reason "that the royal throne could not be supported without corruption,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1992 - 290 páginas
...fleet. Three kings261 protested to me, that in their whole reigns they did never once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake or treachery of some minister...would they do it, if they were to live again; and they shewed with great strength of reason, that the royal throne could not be supported without corruption;... | |
| Elaine L. Robinson - 2006 - 253 páginas
...say: Three kings protested to me, that in their whole reigns they did never once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake or treachery of some minister...confident, restive temper, which virtue infused into man, was a perpetual clog to public business. Gulliver continues to call up people of "quality," of... | |
| Jonathan Swift, William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 596 páginas
...fleet."2 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...infused into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business."3 I had the curiosity to inquire in a particular manner, by what method great numbers had... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 464 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, with great strength of reason, " That the royal throne could not be supported without corruption,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 330 páginas
...Reigns they did never once prefer any Perfon of Merit, unlefs by Miftake or Treachery of fome Minifter in whom they confided : Neither would they do it if they were to live again ; and they mewed, with great Strength of Reafon, that the Royal Throne, could not be fupported without Corruption... | |
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