 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 358 halaman
...persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory...deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable. The language of this country being always upon the flux, the struldbrugs of one... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 halaman
...persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory...deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable. The language of this country being always upon the flux, the struldbrugs of one... | |
 | Granville Stanley Hall - 1922 - 594 halaman
...appellation of things and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relatives. "For the same reason they can never amuse themselves...them from the beginning of a sentence to the end. The language of the country, too, is slowly undergoing a change so that the Struldbruggs of one age... | |
 | Arthur Bingham Walkley - 1923 - 272 halaman
...nobody else in the country knew what these words meant. Their sentences are so long that they can seldom amuse themselves with reading, because their memory...them from the beginning of a sentence to the end. The oldest and by consequence the worst of them are called Victorians. These melancholy and dejected... | |
 | 1926 - 530 halaman
...nobody else in the country knew what these words meant. Their sentences are so long that they can seldom amuse themselves with reading, because their memory...them from the beginning of a sentence to the end. The oldest and, by consequence, the worst of them are called Victorians. These melancholy and dejected... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 halaman
...persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory...deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable. lie under the disadvantage of living like foreigners in their own country. This... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1992 - 290 halaman
...same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to cany them from the beginning of a sentence to the end;...deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable. The language of this country being always upon the flux, the Struldbruggs of... | |
 | Howard Erskine-Hill - 1993 - 132 halaman
...'. . . at Ninety they lose their Teeth and Hair; they have at that Age no distinction of Taste . . . they can never amuse themselves with reading, because...carry them from the Beginning of a Sentence to the End . . . The Language of this Country being always upon the Flux, the Struldbruggs of one Age do not understand... | |
 | Neal R. Cutler - 2010 - 168 halaman
...names of persons, even of ... nearest friends and relations. . . . For the same reason they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory...them from the beginning of a sentence to the end. . . . Neither are they able ... to hold any conversation (farther than a few general words) with their... | |
 | George J. Annas - 1997 - 308 halaman
...those who are their nearest and dearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory...deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable. . . . They are despised and hated. . . . They were the most mortifying sight... | |
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For the same reason, they can never amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end; and by this defect they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise... 
