 | Shane Leslie - 1928 - 384 pagine
...religion, "whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine"; or of wars waged by Princes sometimes "because the enemy is too strong and sometimes because he is too weak." Penal Laws also puzzled poor Houyhnhnms, and Gulliver's master was at a loss that Law "which was intended... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1992 - 290 pagine
...of his dominions, where neither of them pretend to any right. Sometimes one prince quarrelleth with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him. Sometimes a war is entered upon, because me enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our neighbours want the things... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 pagine
...reply to an earlier question from his Houyhnhnm master about the causes of war, Gulliver allows that 'sometimes our neighbours want the Things which we...both fight, till they take ours or give us theirs' (IV, vi, 213). Trade wars are related to the rising expectations of consumption Gulliver then goes... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1999 - 276 pagine
...is an attempt to take by violence from others a part of what they have and we want' (A Digression): 'Sometimes our neighbours want the things which we...both fight, till they take ours or give us theirs.' A Project, for the universal benefit of Mankind [b] contains some characteristic touches found elsewhere... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 396 pagine
...of his dominions, where neither of them pretend to any right. Sometimes one Prince quarrelleth with another for fear the other should quarrel with him....give us theirs. It is a very justifiable cause of war 300 to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2005 - 419 pagine
...of his dominions, where neither of them pretend to any right. Sometimes one prince quarrelleth with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him....have, or have the things which we want; and we both GULLIVER'S TRAVELS 281 fight, till they take ours or give us theirs. It is a very justifiable cause... | |
 | Susan Glover - 2006 - 240 pagine
...of war, where princes quarrel over dominions "where neither of them pretend to any Right," or when "our Neighbours want the Things which we have, or have the Things which we want" (4:63). Gulliver concludes chapter 6, the continuation of the discussion of the society and government... | |
 | Paul McLaughlin - 2007 - 220 pagine
...third of his dominions, where neither of them pretends to any right. Sometimes one prince quarrels with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him....Sometimes our neighbours want the things which we have, or the things which we want; and we both fight, till they take ours, or give us theirs. It is a very justifiable... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 464 pagine
...third of his dominions, where neither of them pretend to any right. Sometimes one prince quarrels with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him....give us theirs. It is a very justifiable cause of a war, to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 578 pagine
...third of his dominions, where neither of them pratend to any right; sometimes one prince quarrels with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him;...sometimes our neighbours want the things which we have, or bave the things which we want, and we both fight till they take ours or gì ve us theirs. It is a very... | |
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Sometimes one prince quarrels with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him. Sometimes a war is entered upon because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our neighbours want the things which we have, or have... 
