They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld ; and the women more horrible than the men. Besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired an additional ghastliness, in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be described... The Political state of Great Britain - Page 544by Political state of Great Britain - 1726Full view - About this book
| William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1882 - 874 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. " They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld, and the women more horrible... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1883 - 466 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women more horrible... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld ; and the women more horrible... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. " They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld, and the women more horrible... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 460 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consultinghistory ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld ; and the women were more horrible... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld ; and the women more horrible... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 458 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld ; and the women were moro horrible... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld ; and the women more horrible... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1885 - 572 pages
...what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. hoot him. Some of this audience mayn't have read the last part of Gulliver, and... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...what kings or ureat persons they can remember, and then consulting history ; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old. "They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld, and the women more horrible... | |
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