 For Englishmen to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation. A True-born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction, A banter made to be a test of fools, Which those that use it justly ridicules, A metaphor...  The true-born Englishman: a satire [in verse]. - Halaman 8oleh Daniel Defoe - 1835Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1907 - 690 halaman
...mixture of various foreign elements. "For Englishmen to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge and lampoons the nation; A true-born Englishman's...contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction." Defoe's brief interval of prosperity was suddenly brought to an end by the King's death in 1702. Under... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1908 - 340 halaman
...to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge and lampoons the nation. A true-born Englishman 'sa contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction ; A banter made to be a test to fools, Which those that use it justly ridicules ; A metaphor invented to express A man akin to all... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young - 1911 - 1196 halaman
...has been followed by countless imitations. FROM THE TRUE BORN ENGLISHMAN A true born Englishman 'sa contradiction ! In speech, an irony; in fact, a fiction! A banter made to be a test of fools! Which those that use it, justly ridicules ; A metaphor invented to express I A man akin to all the universe ! For... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 halaman
...twisted into rhyme intended to allay the prejudice against King William as a foreigner, proving that — A true-born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. He next appeared with The Shortest Way with Dissenters, an ironical pamphlet suggesting to the government... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 halaman
...value that which all wise men deride. For Englishmen to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation. A true-born Englishman's...fiction; A banter made to be a test of fools, Which those that use it justly ridicules; A metaphor invented to express A man akin to all the universe. FROM A... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 halaman
...of life. III. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IDEALS THE TRUE BORN ENGLISHMAN (1701) DANIEL DEFOE A true tjorn m that use it, justly ridicules ; A metaphor invented to express A man akin to all the universe ! For... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1922 - 154 halaman
...into the enemies' country ; he declared that there was no such thing as a true-born Englishman : — " A True-Born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. A metaphor intended to express A man akin to all the universe." He reminded his readers gleefully of... | |
 | 1924 - 502 halaman
...Reference is therein made to Daniel de Foe's pamphlet called The True-born Englishman : A True Born Englishman's a Contradiction, In Speech an Irony, in Fact a Fiction, A Metaphor invented to express A man akin to all the Universe. Also No Roman now, no Britain does remain... | |
 | Otto Jespersen, David MacRitchie, William Henry Stevenson - 1924 - 44 halaman
...Reference is therein made to Daniel de Foe's pamphlet called The True-born Englishman : A True Born Englishman's a Contradiction, In Speech an Irony, in Fact a Fiction, A Metaphor invented to express A man akin to all the Universe. Also No Roman now, no Britain does remain... | |
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