 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 610 σελίδες
...thence to London above twenty years ago; and in conversation told my friend, that in his country, when any young person happened to be put to death, the...poison the emperor, was sold to his imperial majesty's prime-minister of state, and other great mandarins of the court, in joints from the gibbet at four... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 376 σελίδες
...thence to London, about twenty years ago, and in conversation told my friend, that in his country, whin any young person happened to be put to death, the executioner sold the carcase to persons of quality, as a prime dainty ; and that in his time the body of a plump girl of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 540 σελίδες
...thence to London above twenty years ago ; and in conversation told my friend, that in his country, when any young person happened to be put to death, the...court, in joints from the gibbet, at four hundred crowns.* Neither * This anecdote is taken from the Description of the Island of Formosa by that very... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 σελίδες
...thence to London above twenty years ago ; and in conversation told my friend, that in his country when any young person happened to be put to death, the...; and that in his time the body of a plump girl of 15, who was crucified for an attempt to poison the emperor, was sold to his imperial majesty's prime... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 σελίδες
...persons of quality as a prime dainty ; i that in his time the body of a plump girl of 15, who was cruci; for an attempt to poison the emperor, was sold to his imperial : jesty's prime minister of state, and other great mandarins of court, in joints from the gibbet, at... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1861 - 810 σελίδες
...thence to London above twenty years ago; and in conversation told my friend, that in his country when any young person happened to be put to death, the...dainty; and that in his time the body of a plump girl of 15, who was crucified for an attempt to poison the emperor, was sold to his imperial majesty's prime... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 516 σελίδες
...thence to London above twenty years ago ; and in conversation told my friend, that in his country, when any young person happened to be put to death, the...court, in joints from the gibbet, at four hundred crowns.* Neither * This anecdote is taken from the Description of the Island of Formosa by that very... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 522 σελίδες
...thence to London above twenty years ago; and in conversation told my friend, that in his country, when any young person happened to be put to death, the...court, in joints from the gibbet, at four hundred crowns.'" Neither * This anecdote is taken from the Description of the Island of Formosa by that very... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 σελίδες
...thence to London above twenty years ago, and in conversation told my friend that in his country, when any young person happened to be put to death, the executioner sold the carcase to persons of quality as a prime dainty ; and that in his time the body of a plump girl of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 σελίδες
...thence to London above twenty years ago, and in conversation told my friend that in his country, when any young person happened to be put to death, the executioner sold the carcase to persons of quality as a prime dainty ; and that in his time the body of a plump girl of... | |
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... to persons of quality as a prime dainty; and that in his time the body of a plump girl of fifteen, who was crucified for an attempt to poison the emperor, was sold to his Imperial Majesty's prime minister of state, and other great mandarins of the... 
