Great Books of the Western World, 36. köideRobert Maynard Hutchins Encyclopædia Britannica, 1952 |
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... ground by the door of my house ; whereof one very narrowly missed my left eye . But the colonel ordered six of the ringleaders to be seized , and thought no punishment so proper as to deliver them bound into my hands , which some of his ...
... ground by the door of my house ; whereof one very narrowly missed my left eye . But the colonel ordered six of the ringleaders to be seized , and thought no punishment so proper as to deliver them bound into my hands , which some of his ...
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... ground , one standing at my neck , and another at my mid - leg , with a strong cord extended , that each held by the end , while the third measured the length of the cord with a rule of an inch long . Then they measured my right thumb ...
... ground , one standing at my neck , and another at my mid - leg , with a strong cord extended , that each held by the end , while the third measured the length of the cord with a rule of an inch long . Then they measured my right thumb ...
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... ground . He considered a while with the caution of one who endeavours to lay hold on a small dangerous animal in such a manner that it shall not be able either to scratch or to bite him ; as I my self have sometimes done with a weasel ...
... ground . He considered a while with the caution of one who endeavours to lay hold on a small dangerous animal in such a manner that it shall not be able either to scratch or to bite him ; as I my self have sometimes done with a weasel ...
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The Emperor of Lilliput attended by several of the nobility come | 9 |
The author diverts the emperor and his nobility of both sexes in a very | 15 |
The author by an extraordinary stratagem prevents an invasion A high | 23 |
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