 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...Queene. Bk. V. Canto II. St. 43. He that had been eight years upon a project for extracting xunbeams rest ye, little children ; but worm the air in raw, inclement summers. (. SWIFT— Gulliver's Travels. Pt. III. Ch. V. Voyage to Lapula.... | |
 | Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1915 - 1142 pages
...night. There were extractors of sunbeams from cucumbers lont before Captain Lemuel Gulliver saw the man of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard ragged and singed in several places, who had been at work for eight years at the grand academy of Lagado.... | |
 | Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1917 - 1240 pages
...night. There were extractors of sunbeams from cucumbers long before Captain Lemuel Gulliver saw the man of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beara ragged and singed in several places, who had been at work for eight years at the grand academy... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 pages
...more projectors ; and, I believe, I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face,...eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams " Others stroked he-goats, by the dugs, and saved their milk in a sieve, and much they got by it. "... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1883 - 466 pages
...projectors ; and, I believe, I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. „ The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face,...eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams " Others stroked he-goats, by the dugs, and saved their milk in a sieve, and much they got by it. "... | |
 | Arthur Latham Perry - Economics - 1883 - 636 pages
...the selfish and short-sighted and misanthropic tenets of a miserable policy. " Tlie first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face....places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of tJie same color. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which... | |
 | Arthur Latham Perry - Economics - 1883 - 636 pages
...a miserable policy. " TJie first man 1 saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face. Ilis hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several...His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same color. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 460 pages
...projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a very meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair...places. His clothes, shirt, and skin were all of the s;nne color. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 458 pages
...five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a very meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, bis hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several...places. His clothes, shirt, and skin were all of the samе color. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 pages
...more projectors ; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, f, and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and ^ j, '( ,-'f skin, were all of the same colour.... | |
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. 
