 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - Liczba stron: 314
...themselves: and besides, it it not improbable that some scrupulous people might lie apt to Censure such n practice, (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty ; which, I contcsn, hat always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how wHI soever intended.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - Liczba stron: 334
...as to the females, it would, I think with humble submission, be a loss to the public, because they soon would become breeders themselves : and besides,...that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure suoh a practice, (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty ; which, I confess,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - Liczba stron: 598
...as to the females, it would, L think, with humhle submission, be a loss to the public, because they soon would become breeders themselves: and besides,...is not improbable that some scrupulous people might b« apt to censure such a practice, (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - Liczba stron: 252
...recommend buying the children alive, then dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs. " It is not improbable that some scrupulous people might...(although indeed very unjustly,) as a little bordering on cruelty, which, I confess, has always been with me the strongest objection against any project,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - Liczba stron: 686
...bordering upon crucJtyLLJwhich, I confi always been with me the strongest objection against any proj< how well soever intended. But in order to justify my friend, he confessed that this ex dieut was put into his head by the famous Psalmanazar, a native the island Formosa, who came from... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1861 - Liczba stron: 810
...be a loss to the public, because they soon would become breeders themselves : and besides, it is Lot improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt...objection against any project, how well soever intended. j But in order to justify my friend, he confessed that this expedient was put into his head by the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - Liczba stron: 622
...difficulties : and chiefly because " some scrupulous persons might be apt to censure such a practice (though indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty...objection against any project, how well soever intended." As he concludes with an earnest, but modest enforcement of his scheme, he is careful to add that he... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - Liczba stron: 622
...difficulties : and chiefly because " some scrupulous persons might be apt to censure such a practice (though indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty:...objection against any project, how well soever intended." As he concludes with an earnest, but modest enforcement of his scheme, he is careful to add that he... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - Liczba stron: 634
...objections, "it is not improbable that some scrupulous persons might bo apt to censure such a practice as a little bordering upon cruelty ; which, I confess,...objection against any project, how well soever intended." For the rest, he protests the entire disinterestedness of his own plan. " I have no children," he declares,... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - Liczba stron: 632
...objections, " it is not improbable that some scrupulous persons might be apt to censure such a practice as a little bordering upon cruelty ; which, I confess,...with me the strongest objection against any project, bow well soever intended." For the rest, he protests the entire disinterestedness of his own plan.... | |
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