1 The learning of that country very imperfect and confined.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER VII. 2 I had learned in my youth to play a little upon the spinet.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER VI. 3 Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their children.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER VI. 4 The learned among them confess the absurdity of this doctrine; but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER VI. 5 The nurseries for males of noble or eminent birth, are provided with grave and learned professors, and their several deputies.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER VI. 6 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. 7 He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterwards learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER I. 8 This was my bed all the time I staid with those people, though made more convenient by degrees, as I began to learn their language and make my wants known.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER II. 9 The latter part was altogether framed in the style peculiar to that people, whereof I learned some phrases from Glumdalclitch, while she was carrying me to court.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER III. 10 This prince took a pleasure in conversing with me, inquiring into the manners, religion, laws, government, and learning of Europe; wherein I gave him the best account I was able.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER III. 11 These people are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics, by the countenance and encouragement of the emperor, who is a renowned patron of learning.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER I. 12 And, as truth always forces its way into rational minds, so this honest worthy gentleman, who had some tincture of learning, and very good sense, was immediately convinced of my candour and veracity.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII. 13 My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER I. 14 All these orders were duly put in execution; and in about three weeks I made a great progress in learning their language; during which time the emperor frequently honoured me with his visits, and was pleased to assist my masters in teaching me.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER II. 15 The kingdom is a peninsula, terminated to the north-east by a ridge of mountains thirty miles high, which are altogether impassable, by reason of the volcanoes upon the tops: neither do the most learned know what sort of mortals inhabit beyond those mountains, or whether they be inhabited at all.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER IV. 16 My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER I. 17 He was amazed at the continual noise it made, and the motion of the minute-hand, which he could easily discern; for their sight is much more acute than ours: he asked the opinions of his learned men about it, which were various and remote, as the reader may well imagine without my repeating; although indeed I could not very perfectly understand them.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER II. 18 They observed by my teeth, which they viewed with great exactness, that I was a carnivorous animal; yet most quadrupeds being an overmatch for me, and field mice, with some others, too nimble, they could not imagine how I should be able to support myself, unless I fed upon snails and other insects, which they offered, by many learned arguments, to evince that I could not possibly do.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER III. 19 It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are ennobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.