1 The education and exercise of their youth.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftContextHighlight In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII. 2 In educating the youth of both sexes, their method is admirable, and highly deserves our imitation.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftContextHighlight In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII. 3 They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III. 4 Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their children.
5 They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftContextHighlight In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII. 6 To confirm what I have now said, and further to show the miserable effects of a confined education, I shall here insert a passage, which will hardly obtain belief.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII. 7 A convenient apartment was provided for her at court: she had a sort of governess appointed to take care of her education, a maid to dress her, and two other servants for menial offices; but the care of me was wholly appropriated to herself.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER III. 8 In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex; but always in the presence of a professor or deputy, till they come to dress themselves, which is at five years old.
9 The cottagers and labourers keep their children at home, their business being only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore their education is of little consequence to the public: but the old and diseased among them, are supported by hospitals; for begging is a trade unknown in this empire.
10 I described that extraordinary care always taken of their education in arts and arms, to qualify them for being counsellors both to the king and kingdom; to have a share in the legislature; to be members of the highest court of judicature, whence there can be no appeal; and to be champions always ready for the defence of their prince and country, by their valour, conduct, and fidelity.