 The king was struck with horror at the description I had given of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made. " He was amazed how so impotent and grovelling an insect as I (these were his expressions) could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in...  The Political state of Great Britain - Page 496by Political state of Great Britain - 1726Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...grovelling an insect as I," (these were his expressions), " could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted, as the common effects of those destructive machines ; whereof," he... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...grovelling an insect as I," (these were his expressions) ' could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation, which I had painted, as the common effects of those destructive machines ; whereof/ he... | |
 | Fiction - 1853 - 496 pages
...grovelling an insect as I* (these were his expressions) * could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation, which I had painted, as the common effects of those destructive machines ; whereof,' he... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 638 pages
...grovelling an insect as I," (these were his expressions,) " could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted, as the common effects of those destructive machines ; whereof," he... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 pages
...grovelling an insect as I" (these were his expressions) " could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive machines; whereof," he said,... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...grovelling an insect as I (these were his expressions) could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive machines; whereof (he said)... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - Castaways - 1865 - 414 pages
...grovelling an insect as I (these were his expressions) could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted, as the common effects of those destructive machines ; " whereof," he... | |
 | John F. Seymour - 1868 - 24 pages
...so impotent and groveling an insect as he (Gulliver) could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which he had painted, and said he would rather lose half his kingdom than be privy to such... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Castaways - 1871 - 406 pages
...grovelling an insect as I" (these were his expressions) " could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive machines ; whereof," he said,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 pages
...grovelling an insect as I" (these were his expressions) "could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted, as the common effects of these destructive machines: whereof" he said... | |
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