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.

Swift had been appointed rail regulator in 1993 by the then Conservative transport secretary John MacGregor MP.

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.

In Jonathan Swift's poem: " The Progress of Beauty ", as goddess of the moon, Diana is used in comparison to the 17th / early 18th century everyday woman Swift satirically writes about.

Medicago species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Common Swift, Flame, Latticed Heath, Lime-speck Pug, Nutmeg, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Turnip Moth and case-bearers of the genus Coleophora including C. frischella ( recorded on M. sativa ) and C. fuscociliella ( feeds exclusively on Medicago spp ).

The vessel was called the " Swift " and is today privately owned and used as a houseboat.

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

Firs are used as food plants by the caterpillars of some Lepidoptera species, including Chionodes abella ( recorded on White Fir ), Autumnal Moth, Conifer Swift ( a pest of Balsam Fir ), The Engrailed, Grey Pug, Mottled Umber, Pine Beauty and the tortrix moths Cydia illutana ( whose caterpillars are recorded to feed on European Silver Fir cone scales ) and C. duplicana ( on European Silver Fir bark around injuries or canker ).

The liĘ-rail vehicles used are of type Flexity Swift, produced by Bombardier Transportation in Vienna.

Phaseolus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Common Swift, Garden Dart, Ghost Moth Hypercompe albicornis, Hypercompe icasia, the Nutmeg and various caterpillar species.

Until 2008 the newspaper used the typeface Swift from Gerard Unger.

The GPB studios were used for the first-season production of the syndicated CBS Television Distribution program Swift Justice With Nancy Grace via a subsidy by the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office, and was credited as such at the end of each episode.

Not only did Swift use Tooke after the publication of the Tale, he had used Tooke before its publication as well, so the appearance of the work in John Nutt's shop was atypical.

Performers who use acoustic 12-string guitars span a range of genres, from folk ( Arlo Guthrie, Keith Potger, John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, Ben Woodward, Pete Seeger and Noel Paul Stookey ), through reggae ( Bob Marley ), traditional blues ( Lead Belly, Blind Willie McTell, and Guy Davis ), folk rock ( Paul Simon, Neil Young, Tim Buckley, Gerry Beckley, John Allan Cameron ) and country ( Pinmonkey's Michael Reynolds, Taylor Swift and Mike Nesmith ), to rock bands ( Mark Tremonti of Creed and Alter Bridge, Jimi Hendrix on " Hear My Train A-Comin ", Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi, Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys, George Harrison, John Lennon of The Beatles, Robert Smith of The Cure, David Bowie for his " Space Oddity " live performances, Pete Townshend of The Who, Roger Hodgson ( ex-Supertramp ), who used acoustic 12-string on " Give a Little Bit ", " Even in the Quietest Moments ", " C ' est le Bon " and " Know Who You Are "; Melissa Etheridge, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Greg Lake on " Lucky Man " and " Still ... You Turn Me On ", Brian May of Queen, Andy Partridge and Dave Gregory of XTC, and Nick Valensi of The Strokes ).

The Gibson EDS-1275 electric 12-string was used by jazz fusion guitarist John McLaughlin of Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Guns N ' Roses guitarist Slash, Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule and The Allman Brothers Band, Cory Stuteville of Year Of The Dragon, Alex Lifeson of Rush, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth, Jeff Buckley and System of a Down and Scars on Broadway guitarist Daron Malakian, Taylor Swift.

Basic versions of the Suzuki Swift / Forsa and related Chevy Sprint / Geo Metro / Chevy Metro / Pontiac Firefly used an inline-three.

* Burst Alert Telescope, an x-ray telescope used on the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission

After Butler, Jonathan Swift is the most notable practitioner of the Hudibrastic, as he used that form for almost all of his poetry.

While the term is not widely used in Australia and Asia, there were locally developed models which provided performance and visual improvements to the regular family hatchback such as the Ford Laser TX3, Honda City Turbo / Turbo II and Suzuki Cultus GTi / Suzuki Swift GTi.

* Patrol Craft Fast, a all-aluminum riverine boat used by the US Navy's Brown Water Navy during the Vietnam War, commonly known as a Swift Boat

Pisum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bucculatrix pyrivorella, Cabbage Moth, Common Swift, Ghost Moth, Hypercompe indecisa, The Nutmeg, Setaceous Hebrew Character and Turnip Moth.

Isaac Bickerstaff Esq was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac – maker and astrologer John Partridge.

“ All Fools Day ” ( now known as April Fools Day which falls on 1 April ) was Swift ’ s favorite of holidays and he often used this day to aim his satirically biting wit at non-believers in an attempt to “ make sin and folly bleed .” Disgruntled by Partridge ’ s sarcastic attack about the “ infallible Church ” written in his 1708 issue of Merlinus Almanac, Swift projected carefully 3 letters and one Eulogy as an elaborate plan to “ predict ” Partridge ’ s “ infallible death ” to be revealed on April 1, All Fools Day.

Swift used the Observatory to good end, and reportedly discovered six new comets and 900 nebulae.

: This article is about the Irish playwright ; for the pseudonym used by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, and Jonathan Swift, see Isaac Bickerstaff.

Several other Swift Boats had been lost to river mines, but had been salvaged and either repaired or used for spare parts.