| Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 508 страници
...former times ; because I will say nothing of the present. I have read somewhere of an eastern king, who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his head to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal for the son to sit on, who was preferred... | |
| John Bowles Daly - 1886 - 272 страници
...drunken statesmen? Dean Swift, referring to Scroggs, says, " I have read somewhere of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence,...his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal for the son to sit on who was preferred to his father's office. I fancy such a memorial... | |
| John Bowles Daly - 1892 - 276 страници
...drunken statesmen ? Dean Swift, referring to Scroggs, says, " I have read somewhere of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence,...his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal for the son to sit on who was preferred to his father's office. I fancy such a memorial... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1903 - 282 страници
...from former times, because I will say nothing of the present. I have read somewhere of an eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence,...his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal for the son to sit on, who was preferred to his father's office. I fancy such a memorial... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1903 - 356 страници
...from former times, because I will say nothing of the present. 1 have read somewhere of an eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence,...his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal for the son to sit on, who was preferred to his father's office. I fancy such a memorial... | |
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