 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1913 - 370 halaman
...Struldbrugs were dissolved, because the law thought it a reasonable indulgence that those who were condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual...not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife ; also that they could never amuse themselves with reading, because their memory would not serve to... | |
 | Shane Leslie - 1928 - 384 halaman
...rest. The only law tempering their curse was one granting automatic divorces at fourscore on the ground that "those who are condemned without any fault of...have their misery doubled by the load of a wife." Thence Gulliver tacked into realities by journeying to Japan. Here a Dutch disguise was necessary,... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - 1990 - 552 halaman
...passions." Strudlebug marriages are dissolved by the courtesy of the state "for the law thinks . . . that those who are condemned without any fault of...have their misery doubled by the load of a wife." Ibid., p. 226. This passage was brought to my attention by a remark in Kastenbaum, op. cit., p. 13.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1992 - 290 halaman
...they want many bad qualities which abound in others. If a Struldbrugg happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course by the courtesy of the kingdom,277 as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore for the law thinks it a reasonable... | |
 | Thomas Anthony Shannon - 1993 - 560 halaman
...intolerable, so that, for example, marriages are dissolved at a certain age, "for the law thinks . . . that those who are condemned without any fault of...have their misery doubled by the load of a wife"— or a husband, I hasten to add. And so on— one should read Gulliver's vivid description. For the purposes... | |
 | Hans Jonas - 1996 - 232 halaman
...intolerable, so that, for example, marriages are dissolved at a certain age, "for the law thinks . . . that those who are condemned without any fault of...not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife" — or a husband, I hasten to add. And so on — one should read Gulliver's vivid description. For... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2005 - 419 halaman
...they want many bad qualities which abound in others. If a struldbrug happens to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course by the courtesy...those who are condemned without any fault of their GULLIVER'S TRAVELS 241 own to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 298 halaman
...they want many bad qualities which abound in others. "If a Struldbrug happened to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the...the two comes to be fourscore. For the law thinks it to be a reasonable indulgence that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 578 halaman
...want many bad qualities which abound in others (1). If a struldbrug happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved, of course, by the...of the kingdom, "as soon as the younger of the two cemes to be fourscore; for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence that those who are condemned,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 330 halaman
...younger of the two comes to be fourfcore. For the Law thinks it a reafonable Indulgence, that thofe who are condemned without any Fault of their own to a perpetual Continuance in the World, fhould not have their Mifery doubled by the Load of a Wife. As foon as they have completed the Term... | |
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If a struldbrug happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore ; for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned,... 
