 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...entirely abolishing all words whatsoever, . . . urged as a great advantage in point of health as well of brevity. For it is plain that every word we speak...consequently contributes to the shortening of our lives. Jonathan Swift, 1726, 'A Voyage to Laputa', Gulliver's Travels, III, Ch. 5 3O:56 I always thought I'd... | |
 | Roy Porter - History - 2000 - 772 pages
...parodied by Swift in a reductio ad absurdum, in which he broached the scheme of the Academy of Lagado 'for entirely abolishing all Words whatsoever; And...great Advantage in Point of Health as well as Brevity . . . since Words are only Names for Things, it would be more convenient for all Men to carry about... | |
 | Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 644 pages
...Travels, see our selection in "Method" (p. 253). Swift's famous satire goes on to recount another scheme "for entirely abolishing all Words whatsoever: And...great Advantage in Point of Health as well as Brevity. . . . An Expedient was therefore offered, that since Words are only Names for Things, it would be more... | |
 | Roy Porter - History - 2000 - 776 pages
...parodied by Swift in a reductio ad absurdum. in which he broached the scheme of the Academy of Lagado 'for entirely abolishing all Words whatsoever; And this was urged as a great Advantage m Pomt of Health as well as Brevity . . . since Words are only Names for Things, it would be more convenient... | |
 | C. W. A. Whitaker - Philosophy - 2002 - 252 pages
...equivalent to things, but less bulky, prompts Swift to turn the tables on Aristotle: the Laputians argue that 'every word we speak is in some degree a diminution of our lungs by corrosion.' and s0, 'since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about... | |
 | F. David Peat - Science - 2002 - 247 pages
...everything except nouns "because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns," and, what's more, "every word we speak is in some degree a diminution of our lungs by corrosion." When in Swift's satire two philosophers wish to debate, they must avoid all ambiguity and logical inconsistency.... | |
 | Claire Colebrook - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 210 pages
...would be borh thoroughly immaretial (pure ideal and sense) and thoroughly maretial (the thing itself): For, it is plain, that every word we speak is in some degree a diminution of our lungs by cotrosion, and consequentiy contnbures ro the shortening of our lives. An expedient was therefore offered,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Fiction - 2004 - 396 pages
...things imaginable are but nouns. The other was a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsover, and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health as well as brevity. For it 223 GULLIVER S TRAVELS is plain that every word we speak is in some degree a diminution of our lungs... | |
 | Martyn Bone - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 232 pages
...to the things to which they refer, and which would allow the "abolishing [of] all Words whatsoever": For it is plain, that every Word we speak is in some...by Corrosion, and consequently contributes to the shortning of our Lives. An Expedient was therefore offered, that since Words are only Names for Things,... | |
 | Hannah Kim - Religion - 2006 - 258 pages
...himself back to the position in which I had seen him first." -Stevenson, Treasure Island, Chapter 25 B. "For it is plain, that every word we speak is, in some degree, a diminution of our lunge by corrosion, and, consequently, contributes to the shortening of our lives." -Swift, Gulliver's... | |
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The other, was a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever: and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health as well as brevity. For, it is plain, that every word we speak is in some degree a diminution of our lungs by corrosion; and... 
