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1  By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
2  I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VII.
3  However, this confirmed my first opinion, that a people who could so far civilise brute animals, must needs excel in wisdom all the nations of the world.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
4  But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation, and that they are much more uniform, than can be easily imagined.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
5  Every fourth year, at the vernal equinox, there is a representative council of the whole nation, which meets in a plain about twenty miles from our house, and continues about five or six days.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.
6  If a prince sends forces into a nation, where the people are poor and ignorant, he may lawfully put half of them to death, and make slaves of the rest, in order to civilize and reduce them from their barbarous way of living.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V.
7  Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of the public.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
8  Alliance by blood, or marriage, is a frequent cause of war between princes; and the nearer the kindred is, the greater their disposition to quarrel; poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V.
9  But there happening few events of any moment among a people so well united, naturally disposed to every virtue, wholly governed by reason, and cut off from all commerce with other nations, the historical part is easily preserved without burdening their memories.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IX.
10  Another great advantage proposed by this invention was, that it would serve as a universal language, to be understood in all civilised nations, whose goods and utensils are generally of the same kind, or nearly resembling, so that their uses might easily be comprehended.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
11  But, instead of proposals for conquering that magnanimous nation, I rather wish they were in a capacity, or disposition, to send a sufficient number of their inhabitants for civilizing Europe, by teaching us the first principles of honour, justice, truth, temperance, public spirit, fortitude, chastity, friendship, benevolence, and fidelity.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XII.