 The particular talents by which these misanthropes are distinguished from one another, consist in the various kinds of barbarities which they execute upon their prisoners. Some are celebrated for a happy dexterity in tipping the lion upon them ; which...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 3601839Full view - About this book
 | 1739 - 312 pages
...from one another, confilt in the various kinds of Barbarities which they execute upon their Prifoners. Some are celebrated for a happy dexterity in tipping the Lion upon them ; which is performed by fqueezing the Nofe flat to the Face, and boring out the Eyes with their Fingers : Others are called... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...total rout, and mortify some of those inoffensive militia, is reckoned a coup-d'eclat. The particular talents by. which these misanthropes are distinguished...them ; which is performed by squeezing the nose flat to the face, and boring out the eyes with, their fingers. Others are called the dancing-masters, and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 380 pages
...total rout, and mortify some of those inoffensive militia, is reckoned a coup-d1 £clat. The particular talents by which these misanthropes are distinguished...celebrated for a happy dexterity in tipping the lion npanthcm; which is performed by squeezing .the nose flat .to the face, and boriag out the eyes with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 398 pages
...inoffensive militia, is reckoned a cuvp-tT eclat. The particular talents by which these misanthropes ara distinguished from one another, consist in the various...happy dexterity in tipping the lion upon them; which i* performed by squeezing the nose flat to the face, and boring out the eyes with their fingers. Others... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 382 pages
...total rout, and mortify some of those inoffensive militia, is reckoned a coup-d' eclat. The particular talents by which these misanthropes are distinguished from one another, consist in the va-' rious kinds of barbarities which they execute upon their prisoners. Some are celebrated for a... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...total rout, and mortify some of those inoffensive militia, is reckoned a coup-f eclat. The particular talents by which these misanthropes are distinguished...them ; which is performed by squeezing the nose flat to the face, and boring out the eyes with their fingers. Others are called the dancing-masters, and... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 330 pages
...total rout, and mortify some of those inoffensive militia, is reckoned a coufi d' eclat. The particular talents by which these misanthropes are distinguished...tipping the lion upon them : which is performed by squeeaing the nose flat to the face, and boring out the eyes with their fingers ; others are called... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 462 pages
...total rout, and mortify some of those inoffensive militia, is reckoned a coup d'eclat.' The particular talents by which these misanthropes are distinguished...them ; which is performed by Squeezing the nose flat to the face, and boring out the eyes with their fingers. Others are called the dancing-masters, and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 462 pages
...total rout, and mortify some of those inoffensive militia, is reckoned a coup d'eclat. The particular talents by which these misanthropes are distinguished...prisoners. Some are celebrated for a happy dexterity iu tipping the lion upon them ; which is performed by squeezing the nose flat to the face, and boring... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...total rout, and mortify some of those inoffensive militia, is reckoned a coup-feclat. The particular talents by which these misanthropes are distinguished...them ; which is performed by squeezing the nose flat to the face, and boring out the eyes with their fingers. Others are called the dancing-masters, and... | |
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