Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World: In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, ...Charles Bathurst, 1742 - 351 ページ |
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... Manner . The Di- verfions of the Court of Lilliput defcribed . The Author has bis Liberty granted him upon certain Conditions . CHA P. IV . P. 26 Mildendo , the Metropolis of Lilliput , defcribed , to- gether with the Emperor's Palace ...
... Manner . The Di- verfions of the Court of Lilliput defcribed . The Author has bis Liberty granted him upon certain Conditions . CHA P. IV . P. 26 Mildendo , the Metropolis of Lilliput , defcribed , to- gether with the Emperor's Palace ...
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... Manner of his Admit- tance . The King's great Lenity to his Subjects . С НА Р. Х. P. 231 The Luggnuggians commended . A particular De- fcription of the Struldbrugs , with many Conver fations between the Author and fome eminent Per- fons ...
... Manner of his Admit- tance . The King's great Lenity to his Subjects . С НА Р. Х. P. 231 The Luggnuggians commended . A particular De- fcription of the Struldbrugs , with many Conver fations between the Author and fome eminent Per- fons ...
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... Manner of Feeding in this Country . P. 260 CHA P. III . The Author ftudious to learn the Language ; the Houyhnhnm , his Master , affifts in teaching bim . The Language defcribed . Several Houyhn- hnms of Quality came out of Curiofity to ...
... Manner of Feeding in this Country . P. 260 CHA P. III . The Author ftudious to learn the Language ; the Houyhnhnm , his Master , affifts in teaching bim . The Language defcribed . Several Houyhn- hnms of Quality came out of Curiofity to ...
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... Manner of Burials . The Defective- nefs of their Language . p . 316 CHA P. X. The Author's Oeconomy , and happy Life , among the Houyhnhnms . His great Improvement in Vir- tue , by converfing with them . Their Converfa- tions . The ...
... Manner of Burials . The Defective- nefs of their Language . p . 316 CHA P. X. The Author's Oeconomy , and happy Life , among the Houyhnhnms . His great Improvement in Vir- tue , by converfing with them . Their Converfa- tions . The ...
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... , being always provided with a good Number of Books ; and when I was afhore , in obferving the Manners and Difpofitions of the People , as well as learning their . Language , where in in I had a great Facility by the Strength of A VOYAGE.
... , being always provided with a good Number of Books ; and when I was afhore , in obferving the Manners and Difpofitions of the People , as well as learning their . Language , where in in I had a great Facility by the Strength of A VOYAGE.
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281 ページ - there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
206 ページ - An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on.
206 ページ - ... the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded six and thirty of the lads to read the several lines softly as they appeared upon the frame ; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys who were scribes.
16 ページ - He is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court ; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.
8 ページ - I confess I was often tempted while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground. But the remembrance of what I had felt, which probably might not be the worst they could do, and the promise of honour I made them, for so I interpreted my submissive behaviour, soon drove out these imaginations.
148 ページ - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
14 ページ - ... pain of death. When the workmen found it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut all the strings that bound me; whereupon I rose up with as melancholy a disposition as ever I had in my life. But the noise and astonishment of the people at seeing me rise and walk, are not to be expressed. The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semi-circle; but being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed...
340 ページ - ... king, they set up a rotten plank or a stone for a memorial, they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more by force for a sample, return home, and get their pardon. Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.
27 ページ - This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth or liberal education. When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope, and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office.
241 ページ - They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld, and the women more horrible than the men. Besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired an additional ghastliness in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be described; and among half a dozen, I soon distinguished which was the eldest, although there was not above a century or two between them.