 Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I : and yet...  The Political state of Great Britain - Page 482by Political state of Great Britain - 1726Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal-Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I : and yet, says he, I dare engage, these creatures have their titles and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 386 pages
...minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal-Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I: and yet, says he, I dare engage, these creatures have their titles and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 354 pages
...who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, lie observed " how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I : and yet," says he " I dare engage, these creatures have their titles... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the main-mast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed, " How contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I : and yet," says he, " I dare engage, these creatures have their titles... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 480 pages
...minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the main-mast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed, " How contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I : and yet," says he, " I dare engage, these creatures have their titles... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 552 pages
...waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, and observing how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects." " And yet,'' said he, " I dare engage, those creatures have their titles... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1841 - 960 pages
...minister, who waited behind him with a white stntf, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed, " How contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I ! and yet," says he, " I dare engage, these creatures hare their titles... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed, " How contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I ! and yet," says he, " I dare engage, these creatures have their titles... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...minister, who waited behind him with a white staff nearly as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I ; " And yet," says he, " I dare engage these creatures have their titles... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 pages
...minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as th§ mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed, "how contemptible a thing was human grandeur which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I; and yet," says he, " I dare engage these creatures have their titles... | |
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