 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 pages
...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 in the art of proving, by...black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my... | |
 | John Young Sargent - 1883 - 208 pages
...their majesties to permit this act of vassalage. 151. I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth, in the art of proving, by...black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society, all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbour hath a mind to... | |
 | 1885 - 426 pages
...essayist quotes from Gulliver in his voyage to the Ilonglulus. "There is a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by...black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves." Thus does Dean Swift add his sarcasm, prompted,... | |
 | W. C. TAYLOR - 1890 - 890 pages
...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 in the art of proving, by...black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my... | |
 | John Wesley, James Henry Potts - 1891 - 568 pages
...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 white ? For example : if my neighbor has a mind to my cow, he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 pages
...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...black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 pages
...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 pages
...unfair part." Swift makes Gulliver give the following account : " There was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by...black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1899 - 376 pages
...excited scruples among many good men. Swift very roughly described lawyers as ' a society of men bred from their youth in the art of proving by words, multiplied...black and black is white, according as they are paid.' Dr. Arnold has more than once expressed his dislike, and indeed abhorrence, of the profession of an... | |
 | George William Warvelle - 1902 - 260 pages
...Houyhnhnms," makes Gulliver tell his master, the Grey Horse, that "there was a society of men among us, bred from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that black is white, and white is black, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the... | |
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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. 
