Gulliver's travels. Pt.1. A voyage to Lilliput. Pt.2. A voyage to Brobdingnag. Abridged for use in schools1883 |
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... never beheld a more entertaining prospect . The country around appeared like a continued garden , and the enclosed fields , which were generally forty feet square , resembled so many beds of flowers . These fields were intermingled with ...
... never beheld a more entertaining prospect . The country around appeared like a continued garden , and the enclosed fields , which were generally forty feet square , resembled so many beds of flowers . These fields were intermingled with ...
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... never observed , but thought my hat had been lost at sea . I entreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be brought to me as soon as possible , de- scribing to him the use and the nature of it : and the next day the waggoners ...
... never observed , but thought my hat had been lost at sea . I entreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be brought to me as soon as possible , de- scribing to him the use and the nature of it : and the next day the waggoners ...
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... never be an instrument of bringing a free and brave people into slavery . " And , when the matter was debated in council , the wisest part of the ministry were of my opinion . This open bold declaration of mine was so opposite to the ...
... never be an instrument of bringing a free and brave people into slavery . " And , when the matter was debated in council , the wisest part of the ministry were of my opinion . This open bold declaration of mine was so opposite to the ...
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Jonathan Swift. never forgive me . He mentioned it in a very artful manner at council , where I was told that some of the wisest ap- peared , at least by their silence , to be of my opinion ; but others , who were my secret enemies ...
Jonathan Swift. never forgive me . He mentioned it in a very artful manner at council , where I was told that some of the wisest ap- peared , at least by their silence , to be of my opinion ; but others , who were my secret enemies ...
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... never observe this maxim to be put in practice by any nation except that of Lilliput . Whoever can there bring sufficient proof , that he has strictly observed the laws of his country for seventy - three moons , has a claim to certain ...
... never observe this maxim to be put in practice by any nation except that of Lilliput . Whoever can there bring sufficient proof , that he has strictly observed the laws of his country for seventy - three moons , has a claim to certain ...
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able animal answer arrived arrows attended began boat Bolgolam BROBDINGNAG cable captain carried chairs closet clothes commanded contrived convenient court COVENT GARDEN creature danger desired discovered emperor of Blefuscu empire England ERSKINE CLARKE eyes fastened favour Fcap fear feet high five fleet forbear four gave gently GEORGE BELL girl Glumdalclitch ground GULLIVER'S TRAVELS half hammock hand happened head heard hole honour horses hundred yards imperial majesty inches king kingdom lappet least legs liberty Lilliput Lilliputians little nurse majesty's man-mountain manner master MASTERMAN READY meat metropolis nardac observed Old Jewry ordered palace person pocket prince prodigious queen royal sail scabbard scimitar seamen servants ship side sight spinet stick thought thousand told took top-mast trouble the reader Van Diemen's Land vessel voyage walked wherein whereof whereupon window words
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Página 12 - ... hundred of the inhabitants mounted, and walked towards my mouth, laden with baskets full of meat, which had been provided and sent thither by the king's orders, upon the first intelligence he received of me. I observed there was the flesh of several animals, but could not distinguish them by the taste. There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark.
Página 105 - He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century, protesting •' it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, or ambition, could produce.
Página 36 - It began upon the following occasion: It is allowed on all hands that the primitive way of breaking eggs, before we eat them, was upon the larger end; but his present Majesty's grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers. Whereupon the Emperor, his father, published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.
Página 10 - In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin ; when bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high,* with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
Página 45 - ... suppose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man's power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by experience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.
Página 12 - 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.
Página 68 - Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It might have pleased fortune to have let the Lilliputians find some nation where the people were as diminutive with respect to them as they were to me. And who knows but that even this prodigious race of mortals might be equally overmatched in some distant part of the world, whereof we have yet no discovery...
Página 30 - GOLBASTO MOMAREN EvLAME GURDILO SHEFIN MULLY ULLY GUE, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun...
Página 44 - ... that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superior cunning ; and since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or hath no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.