Last line

I swell the longer upon this subject from the desire I have to make the society of an English Yahoo by any means not insupportable, and therefore I here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice, that they will not presume to appear in my sight.

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3 Responses to Last line

  1. Chrees says:

    Only place I know where Yahoo is used (besides the Nasdaq) is Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver Travels.” Yahoos were the brutes that slaved for the horse-race.

    (That’s right… there was a letter at the end of the book. I may have to read this again soon!)

  2. red says:

    Yup! Gulliver’s Travels.

  3. red says:

    That should be “dwell” in that quote, not “swell”.

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