| Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 páginas
...night behold the priests among them in vast number . . . linked together in a circular chain, with every man a pair of bellows applied to his neighbour's breech, by which they blew each other to the shape and size of a tun; and for that reason with great propriety of speech did usually... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 páginas
...a circular chain, with every man a pair of bellows applied to his neighbor .... by which they blew each other to the shape and size of a tun ; and for...speech, did usually call their bodies their vessels.' The work, though admired was widely condemned. To a later edition was prefixed an apology, in which... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 596 páginas
...a storm. At other times were to be seen several hundreds linked together in a circular chain, with every man a pair of bellows applied to his neighbour's breech, by which they blew up each other to the size of n tun ; and lor that reason, with great propriety of speech, did usually call their bodies... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...in a circular chain, with every man a pair of bellows applied to his neighbor ... by which they blew each other to the shape and size of a tun ; and for...speech, did usually call their bodies their vessels.' The work, though admired, was widely condemned. To a later edition was prefixed an apology, in which... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 516 páginas
...might behold the piestrs among them in vast number. . . . linked together in a circular chain, wit every man a pair of bellows applied to his neighbour's breech, by which they blew each other to the shape and size of a tun; and for that reason with great propiiety o speech did usually... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 páginas
...man a pair of bellows applied lo hit neighbor . . . by which they blew each other to the shape und Hix Welsh The work, though admired, was widely condemned. To a later edition was prefixed an apology, in which... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1889 - 460 páginas
...hundreds linked together in a circular chain, with every man a pair of bellows applied to his neighbour, by which they blew up each other to the shape and...propriety of speech did usually call their bodies their vessels.2 When, by these and the like performances, they were grown sufficiently replete, they would... | |
| William Minto - 1892 - 584 páginas
...every man a pair of bellows applied to his neighbour's breech, by which they blew up each other to the size of a tun ; and for that reason, with great propriety...usually call their bodies their vessels. When, by tliese and the like perfurmances, they were grown sufficiently replete, they would immediately depart,... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1905 - 470 páginas
...chain, «ilh every man a pair of bellows applieil lo his neighbour's breech, by which they blew cach other to the shape and size of a tun ; and for that...speech did usually call their bodies their vessels.... and to render these yet more compleat, because the hrcath of man's life is in bis nostrils, thereforc... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 486 páginas
...a Storm. At other times were to be seen several Hundreds link'd together in a circular Chain, with every Man a Pair of Bellows applied to his Neighbour's...Propriety of Speech, did usually call their Bodies, their^esjf/s.3 When, by these and the like Performances, they were grown sufficiently replete, they... | |
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