 | Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 pages
...nor from the right to the left like the Arabians ; VJ ^-- nor from up to down, like the Chinese ; * & but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England. They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, ' because they hold an opinion that in eleven... | |
 | Library - 1873 - 1084 pages
...IJHHÄÄ. tXsXo (oJLsXw (V" лу/д.Т АЛ» nor from up to down, like the Chinese, — BL ffi ft. f those diminutive people appeared to me the fairest They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion that in eleven... | |
 | Fiction - 1873 - 1086 pages
...Отпсо-т/ nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, — nor from up like the Chinese, — A ft. . HL- deigned to regard me with an air of peculiar approbation, and indeed he They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion that in eleven... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...left to the right, like the Europeaus ; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabiaus; nor up and down, like the Chinese; but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in, Englmd. — SWIFT, GuUicer's Voyage to LiHiput, chap. vi. — True ease in WRITING comes from art,... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...left to the right, like the Europeans ; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians ; nor up and down, like the Chinese ; but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies iu Engl.md. — SWIFT, Guttiver's Voyage to Litliput, chap. vi. — True ease in WRITING comes from... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1883 - 466 pages
...their learning, which for many ages has flourished in all its branches among them ; but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the...of the paper to the other, like ladies in England. They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 pages
...their learning, which for many ages has flourished in all its branches among them ; but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the...of the paper to the other, like ladies in England. They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 128 pages
...their learning, which, for many ages, has flourished in all its branches among them : but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the...of the paper to the other, like ladies in England. They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven... | |
 | W. C. TAYLOR - 1890 - 890 pages
...their learning, which for many ages has flourished in all its branches among them ; but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the...of the paper to the other, like ladies In England. They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion that in eleven... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1903 - 440 pages
...their learning, which for many ages hath flourished in all its branches among them : but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the...of the paper to the other, like ladies in England. They bury their dead with their heads directly downwards, because they hold an opinion that in eleven... | |
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... their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans ; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians ; nor from up to down, like the Chinese ; but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other,... 
