 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 Seiten
...would give him all the satisfaction I was able." I said, " there was a society of men among us, bred np from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied...purpose, that white is black, and black is white, aocordjng as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1882 - 76 Seiten
...that had been done me ; however, I would give him all the satisfaction I was able. I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbour hath a mind to my cow, he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cota from me. I must then... | |
 | 1882 - 692 Seiten
...And loud withal, that could not wag, nur scarce Lie still, without a fee." Dean Swift painted them as "a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...black and black is white, according as they are paid." And Junius accounted for what he deemed the perversity of Lord Mansfield's politic?, on the ground... | |
 | John Young Sargent - 1883 - 208 Seiten
...some hesitation on the part of their majesties to permit this act of vassalage. 151. I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth,...the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbour hath a mind to my cow, he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must then... | |
 | 1885 - 426 Seiten
...softening the aforesaid prejudice. The essayist quotes from Gulliver in his voyage to the Ilonglulus. "There is a society of men among us, bred up from...this society all the rest of the people are slaves." Thus does Dean Swift add his sarcasm, prompted, perhaps, by the vexatious prosecutions of his printers... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1887 - 268 Seiten
...that had been done me : however, I would give him all the satisfaction I was able. I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that lie ought to have my cow from me. I must... | |
 | W. C. TAYLOR - 1890 - 890 Seiten
...had been done me : however, I would give him all the satisfaction I was able." I said, " there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my cow, he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must... | |
 | John Wesley, James Henry Potts - 1891 - 568 Seiten
...of justice," even in public courts of judicature ? Can it not be said in any Protestant country, " There is a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, according as they are paid, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 Seiten
...in the ancient method of barring an entail, by suffering a common recovery. ! above that " There was a society of men among us, bred ' up from their youth in the art of proving, by words ' J multiplied for the purpose, that white is black and black \is white, according as they are paid.... | |
 | Virginia Bar Association, Virginia State Bar Association - 1895 - 314 Seiten
...say, neither a weak nor an unfair part." Swift makes Gulliver give the following account : " There was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must... | |
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. 
