 | Jonathan Swift - 1742 - 400 pages
...former Times, becaufe I will fay nothing of the prefent. I HAVE read fome where of an Eaftern King, who put a Judge to Death for an iniquitous Sentence ; and ordered his Hide to be fluffed into a Cujhion, and placed upon the Tribunal for the Son to fit on ; who was preferred to his... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 442 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...excel hi any thing but stuffing of his veal. King. 9. To form by stuffing. An eastern king put a jud^e to death 'for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal Swft. 7o STUFF, -vn To feed gluttonously. Wcdg'd in a spacious elbow-chair, And on... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 352 pages
...death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the • tribunal for the son to sit on, who was preferred to his fathers office. I fancy such a memorial might not have been unuseful to a son of Sir William Scroggs,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 610 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | James Granger - 1824 - 704 pages
...separate edition of the " Life," 1682. t " I have read somewhere,"} says Dr. Swift, " of an eastern king, who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into n cushion, and placed upon the tribunal, for the son to sit on, nho was preferred to his father's office.... | |
 | James Granger - Great Britain - 1824 - 446 pages
...separate edition of the " Life," 1682. t " I have read somewhere, "$ says Dr. Swift, " of an eastern king, who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his bide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal, for the son to sit on, who was preferred... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 538 pages
...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... | |
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I have read somewhere of an, eastern king, who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered 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... 
