1 I found my terror gradually lessened, but my hatred and contempt seemed to increase.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 4: CHAPTER XI. 2 However, the king treated him with tenderness, as a well-meaning man, but of a low contemptible understanding.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER IV. 3 So that, thinking I had seen enough, full of contempt and aversion, I got up, and pursued the beaten road, hoping it might direct me to the cabin of some Indian.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 4: CHAPTER I. 4 How low an opinion I had of human wisdom and integrity, when I was truly informed of the springs and motives of great enterprises and revolutions in the world, and of the contemptible accidents to which they owed their success.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII. 5 I conversed only with women, tradesmen, flappers, and court-pages, during two months of my abode there; by which, at last, I rendered myself extremely contemptible; yet these were the only people from whom I could ever receive a reasonable answer.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER IV. 6 My wife and family received me with great surprise and joy, because they concluded me certainly dead; but I must freely confess the sight of them filled me only with hatred, disgust, and contempt; and the more, by reflecting on the near alliance I had to them.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 4: CHAPTER XI. 7 I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of Yahoo, an odious animal, for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt: I begged he would forbear applying that word to me, and make the same order in his family and among his friends whom he suffered to see me.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 4: CHAPTER III. 8 And yet I have seen the moral of my own behaviour very frequent in England since my return; where a little contemptible varlet, without the least title to birth, person, wit, or common sense, shall presume to look with importance, and put himself upon a foot with the greatest persons of the kingdom.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER V. 9 Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevil, without one right angle in any apartment; and this defect arises from the contempt they bear to practical geometry, which they despise as vulgar and mechanic; those instructions they give being too refined for the intellects of their workmen, which occasions perpetual mistakes.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER II. 10 His majesty discovered not the least curiosity to inquire into the laws, government, history, religion, or manners of the countries where I had been; but confined his questions to the state of mathematics, and received the account I gave him with great contempt and indifference, though often roused by his flapper on each side.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER II. 11 Although I cannot say that I was ill treated in this island, yet I must confess I thought myself too much neglected, not without some degree of contempt; for neither prince nor people appeared to be curious in any part of knowledge, except mathematics and music, wherein I was far their inferior, and upon that account very little regarded.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER IV.