Hanoverian agents assisted in promoting circulation, said to have reached 40,000, and if one may judge by the reaction of Swift and other government writers, the work must have had considerable impact.

This essay had the same shock value as the original " Modest Proposal " for those readers who had not been exposed to Swift.

Although previous big-name pitchers, including Bill Swift, Bret Saberhagen, and Darryl Kile, had struggled in Colorado, following the 2000 season O ' Dowd made two very splashy signings in the free-agent market, signing Denny Neagle to a five-year contract worth $ 51 million, followed five days later by signing Mike Hampton to an eight-year, $ 121 million contract.

" G. K. Chesterton compared it to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: " Gilbert pursued and persecuted the evils of modern England till they had literally not a leg to stand on, exactly as Swift did ...

Between its creation and late 1998, the company had a relatively calm relationship with its first economic regulator, John Swift QC, whose strategy was to encourage Railtrack to make commitments to improvement.

John Burkett and Bill Swift both had 20 + wins, and closer Rod Beck was dominant with 48 saves and a 2. 16 ERA.

In 1821, the president of the college, Zephaniah Swift Moore, who had accepted his position believing that the college would move east, decided to proceed with the move.

Borges follows the history of this argument through Blaise Pascal and Jonathan Swift, then observes that in his own time, the vocabulary had changed.

Watson and Swift had the reputation as excellent observers.

Watson had already discovered more than twenty asteroids, while Swift had several comets named after him.

The big meat packers, Armour, Swift, and Wilson, had purchased the most expensive units which they installed on train cars and in branch houses and storage facilities in the more remote distribution areas.

Outside of Gulliver's Travels, Swift had expressed longstanding concern over the corruption of the English language, and he had proposed language reform.

The Act revealed a disdain for Swift, Pope, Fielding, and other literary figures who had attacked his government in their works.

Arbuthnot told Swift that Caroline had enjoyed his Gulliver's Travels, particularly the tale of the crown prince who wore one high-heel and one low-heel in a country where the King and his party wore low heels, and the opposition wore high ones: a barely veiled reference to the political leanings of the Prince of Wales.

Most of the books were written by James Duncan Lawrence, who had an interest in science and technology and was faithful to the canon of the previous Tom Swift series.

The Tom Swift Jr. stories had stronger science-fiction elements than the earlier series, particularly in the later volumes.

As with other writers he had read while at St Cyprian's Prep school ,-Kipling, Wodehouse, Swift, Shaw, Thackeray-his loyalty, " was virtually unwavering.

The west side had been titled by Alamo defender, Thomas R. Miller and sold in 1840 to Ranger James Campbell in partership with Arthur Swift and Andrew Neill.

This was the constitution which William Molyneux and Swift had denounced, which Flood had attacked, and which Grattan was to destroy, becoming leaders of the Patriot movement.

Gay had just been appointed secretary to the British ambassador to the court of Hanover through the influence of Jonathan Swift when the death of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, three months later put an end to all his hopes of official employment.

Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".

Capp has been compared, at various times, to Mark Twain, Dostoevski, Jonathan Swift, Lawrence Sterne and Rabelais.

As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift ; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time.

Tom Swift has also been the subject of a board game and a television show.

In addition to publication in the United States, Tom Swift books have been published extensively in England, and translated into Norwegian, French, Icelandic, and Finnish.

The original Tom Swift has been claimed to represent the early 20th-century conception of inventors.

In addition, various Tom Swift radio shows, television shows, and films have been planned, but were not released or, in some cases, produced.

The Tom Swift books have been credited with laying the foundations for success of American science fiction and with establishing the edisonade ( stories focusing on brilliant scientists and inventors ) as a basic cultural myth.

Yet, the characters and titles are well-remembered and lovingly regarded, and a number of scientists, researchers, and engineers ( including Apple Computer's Steve Wozniak ) profess to having been set on their courses by Tom Swift Jr.

Swift supposedly buried treasure in the area which has never been recovered.

The park was has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because it supports 11 of Tasmania's endemic bird species as well as Flame and Pink Robins and, probably, Swift Parrots.

The island has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because it supports significant numbers of endangered Swift Parrots and Forty-spotted Pardalotes, over 1 % of the world population of Pacific Gulls, as well as populations of most of Tasmania ’ s endemic bird species.

Writers who are or have been residents of Kingston include Steven Heighton, Bronwen Wallace, Helen Humphreys, Michael Ondaatje, Joanne Page, Diane Schoemperlen, Eric Folsom, Michael Crummey, Melanie Dugan, Mark Sinnett, Mary Alice Downie, Robertson Davies, Douglas Fetherling, Wayne Grady, Merilyn Simonds, Ellen Stafford, Alec Ross, Jamie Swift, Carolyn Smart, Sarah Tsiang, Joanne Stanbridge, Laurie Lewis, and Alexander Scala.

Swift supposedly buried treasure in the area which has never been recovered.

The magazine fort has been satirically immortalised in a jingle by Jonathan Swift who wrote:

This term has not yet been officially recognised, but is widely used among tenants of allotments, including Gardeners World presenter, Joe Swift.

The treatise on political lying, for example, has been attributed to Swift in the past, although it was definitely Arbuthnot's.

Andy Hamilton ( Satan ), Robert Duncan ( Scumspawn ), and David Swift ( God ) had all worked together previously, in the UK television comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey between 1990 and 1998, which had been co-written by Hamilton.

She has also been credited as an inspiration to other performers such as Sara Evans, Kelly Clarkson, Lee Ann Womack, Terri Clark, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood ,.

Lord Holland wrote to him expressing his own opinion and Grenville's, that there had been nothing like it since the days of Swift ( Memoir, i. 151 ).

By 1685, Southampton was recognized by the Provincial Council as a township, and the lands within its borders had been allocated to thirteen original purchasers: John Luff, John Martin, Robert Pressmore, Richard Wood, John Jones, Mark Betres, John Swift, Enoch Flowers, Joseph Jones, Thomas Groom, Robert Marsh, Thomas Hould and John Gilbert, whose tracts were delineated on a Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania drafted by Thomas Holme, Penn's Surveyor General.