 | Patrick Brantlinger - 1996 - 308 pages
...discredited Gulliver's praise of Britain, the King concludes that "the Bulk of your Natives [must] be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin...ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth" (108)—probably about what Swift believed. By the end of his Travels, if the Houyhnhnms have as much... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...good time was had by all" in Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, ed. Paul Beale (1985). 23 I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. JONATHAN SWIFT, (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist. The king of Brobdingnag, in Gulliver's Travels, "A... | |
 | Gibson Burrell - 1997 - 260 pages
...and in the following quotation from those who tower above us humans we get a strong flavour of this: 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth'. The recognition that we do crawl upon the face of the Earth is reflective perhaps of a strand of thinking... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 436 pages
...supermen, that is, notes, after he hears Gulliver's account of European civilization, that its natives must be "the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin...suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth." A comparison of his utopian supra-human kingdom with those of Europe could yield no other conclusion.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...fierce indignatlon can no longer tear his heart. 11313 Gulliver's Travels 'A Voyage to Brobdingnag 1 perniclous race of little odlous vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the... | |
 | Richard Keller Simon - 1999 - 174 pages
...Brobdingnagian king tells Gulliver that the Europeans he praises so highly and describes so honestly are "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth" (II, 6, p. 173), and although Gulliver is at first greatly offended, he gradually comes to see the... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 2000 - 308 pages
...gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to...ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth" (GT 154). 9. "Now it is impossible to conceive the incorporeal as a separate existence, except the... | |
 | Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi - 2000 - 780 pages
...Lemuel Gulliver's description of European natives, the king of Brobdingnag concluded that they were "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." (Jonathan Swift, Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver,... | |
 | Frank T. Boyle - 2000 - 262 pages
...political review of European culture to the Brobdingnagian king, only to f1nd himself denounced as one of "the most pernicious Race of little odious vermin...suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth." Gulliver opens the gunpowder episode by saying he has learned: "It was in vain to discover my Resentments,... | |
 | Alicia Chudo - 2000 - 255 pages
...legend has it, originally pronounced the words spoken to Gulliver by the king of Brobdingnag ("yours is the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that...suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth"); the confidante of those two arch enemies, Samuel Johnson and Lawrence Sterne; the friend of Malthus... | |
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I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. 
