 The ceremony is performed in his Majesty's great chamber of state, where the candidates are to undergo a trial of dexterity very different from the former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the old or the...  The Political state of Great Britain - Page 464by Political state of Great Britain - 1726Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 288 pages
...of dexterity, very different from the former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the old or the new world. The emperor holds a stick in his hands, parallel to the horizon, while the candidates advancing, one by one, sometimes leap over the stick,... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...of dexterity very different from the former, and such as 1 have not observed the least resemblance fixed as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast; But strength sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it backwards and forwards several times, according... | |
 | Sophie Shilleto Smith - Authors, Irish - 1910 - 586 pages
...of dexterity very different from the former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the old or the new world....horizon, while the candidates advancing one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it backwards and forwards several times, according... | |
 | Delphian Society - Civilization - 1911 - 566 pages
...very different from the former, and such as I have not observed in any other country of the New or Old World. The Emperor holds a stick in his hands, both...horizon, while the candidates, advancing one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it, backward and forward several times, according... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 272 pages
...former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the new or old world. The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both...horizon ; while the candidates, advancing one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it backwards and forwards several times, according... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 pages
...by whose interest Walpole was restored to office on the death of Stanhope in 1721. least resemblance of in any other country of the old or the new world....horizon, while the candidates advancing one by one, sometimes leap over the stick,1 sometimes creep under it backwards and forwards several times, according... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) - 1914 - 168 pages
...of dexterity, very different from the former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the old or the new world. The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both 1 Somersault. 2 Wooden platter. ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates advancing, one by... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) - 1914 - 168 pages
...the old or the new world. The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both 1Somersault. 2 Wooden platter. ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates advancing, one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it, backward and forward, several times, according... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Fantasy fiction, English - 1919 - 348 pages
...of dexterity very different from the former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the old or the new world....horizon, while the candidates advancing one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it backwards and forwards several times, according... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...former, and such as 1 have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the old or n arts of hell, in wickedness refln'dl 20 0 sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it backwards and forwards several times, according... | |
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