 I was afraid of trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence.  The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Page 402by George Campbell - 1801Full view - About this book
 | W. C. TAYLOR - 1890 - 890 pages
...milder clime, A home to rest, a shelter to defend, Peace and repose, a Briton and a friend. way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence. When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to -inquire, one of my servants opening the door,... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - Bookbinding - 1895 - 836 pages
...life."— tytctatar. Instead of together, the writer should have said successively or in succession. " I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence." — Stvjfl't "Voyage to Brobdignag." This unavoidably suggests the Question — How many heads was... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - Bookbinding - 1895 - 830 pages
...to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence." — S,«?jt' % " Voyage to Brobdignag." This unavoidably suggests the question — How many heads was he possessed of? COP rected ; " I was once or twice in danger of getting my head broken/' etc. " So the pure limpid... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - Children's poetry - 1907 - 494 pages
...trampling on every traveler I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence. When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to inquire, one of the servants opening the door,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) - 1914 - 168 pages
...trampling on every traveler I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence. When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to inquire, one of the servants opening the door,... | |
 | Arthur Mee - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 656 pages
...every traveller I met (he confesses), and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence. When I came to my own house, one of the servants opening the door, I bent down to go in — like a... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 358 pages
...trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence. When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to enquire, one of the servants opening the door,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 pages
...trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence. When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to enquire, one of the servants opening the door,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence. When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to enquire, one of the servants opening the door,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Fiction - 1992 - 290 pages
...trampling on every traveller I met; and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so, that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence. When I came to mine own house, for which I was forced to enquire, one of the servants opening the door,... | |
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