1 Ancient and modern history corrected.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII. 2 I was chiefly disgusted with modern history.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII. 3 I have perused many of their books, especially those in history and morality.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER VII. 4 The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER VII. 5 Thus, gentle reader, I have given thee a faithful history of my travels for sixteen years and above seven months: wherein I have not been so studious of ornament as of truth.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 4: CHAPTER XII. 6 The people so highly resented this law, that our histories tell us, there have been six rebellions raised on that account; wherein one emperor lost his life, and another his crown.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER IV. 7 But the usual way of computing how old they are, is by asking them what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER X. 8 But I was soon informed, both by conversation and reading their histories; for, in the course of many ages, they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject; the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the king for absolute dominion.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER VII. 9 His majesty discovered not the least curiosity to inquire into the laws, government, history, religion, or manners of the countries where I had been; but confined his questions to the state of mathematics, and received the account I gave him with great contempt and indifference, though often roused by his flapper on each side.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER II. 10 Here I discovered the roguery and ignorance of those who pretend to write anecdotes, or secret history; who send so many kings to their graves with a cup of poison; will repeat the discourse between a prince and chief minister, where no witness was by; unlock the thoughts and cabinets of ambassadors and secretaries of state; and have the perpetual misfortune to be mistaken.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.